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Almost English Book
HardCover. Pub Date :2013-08-15 Pages: 288 Language: English Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 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 familys 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 doesnt 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...Read More
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Foyles
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013: the extraordinary, warm and witty novel from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of When We Were Bad
- 144721997X
- 9781447219972
- Charlotte Mendelson
- 1 August 2013
- Mantle
- Hardcover (Book)
- 400
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