Almost English
Mendelson, Charlotte, 1972-2013
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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 realises she has made a terrible mistake. 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.
Main title:
Almost English / Charlotte Mendelson.
Author:
Mendelson, Charlotte, 1972-, author
Imprint:
London : Mantle, 2013.
Collation:
390 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781447219972 (hbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
3421746
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