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Almost English
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Pan Macmillan UK
| Author:
Charlotte Mendelson
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan UK
Author:
Charlotte Mendelson
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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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 un-English 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 realizes 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.
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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 un-English 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 realizes 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.
About Author
Charlotte Mendelson?s novels include Daughters of Jerusalem, When We Were Bad, Almost English and The Exhibitionist. She has won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, has been longlisted for the Man Booker, and has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Women?s Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of one work of non-fiction, Rhapsody in Green, and is the gardening correspondent for The New Yorker. She lives in London.
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