Almost English (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 'I adored Almost English' Nigella Lawson 'I read and ADORED Almost English . . . And now I will read everything she's ever written' Marian Keyes Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there . . . In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider. At Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake. She is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even be. And as a semi-Hungarian Londoner, who is she? In the meantime, her mother Laura, an alien in this strange universe, has her own painful secrets to deal with, especially the return of the last man she'd expect back in her life. She isn't noticing that, at Combe Abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrong.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2014
Authors:	Charlotte Mendelson
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	402
Edition:	Main Market Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4472-2000-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4472-2000-5
Barcode:	9781447220008

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