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Almost English
[Paperback - 2014]
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Category: Fiction
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Publisher: Picador Uk | ISBN: 9781447220008 | Pages: 0
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Longlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize and the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for FictionHome 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 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.

Charlotte Mendelson is a novelist. Her most recent book, Daughters of Jerusalem, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys prize. Her next, When We Were Bad, will be published by Picador in May 2007.

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