Almost English
About Charlotte Mendelson
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women`s Prize for Fiction 2014 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...
ISBN: 978-1-447-22000-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2014
