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Title: Almost English
Author: MENDELSON CHARLOTTE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 28/11/2023
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
<b>‘The multi award-winning Charlotte Mendelson is famous for whipping up the hottest, messiest family dramas a writer of literary fiction can . . . This is late Shakespeare meets <i>Modern Family </i>and it’s irresistible’ – <i>The Times</i></b>
In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family’s crushing expectations and their traditions, she knows she must escape.
At Combe Abbey, a traditional English private boarding school in the Dorset countryside, Marina realizes she’s made a terrible mistake. Here, among the boathouses, chapel services and unspoken social hierarchy, she is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn’t know how to fit in, flirt, or even exist.
Meanwhile, her mother has her own painful secrets to deal with – especially the surprising return of the very last man she’d expect to see. And Marina’s disastrous spiral at Combe Abbey is going unnoticed . . .
<b>‘A deliciously funny tale of dysfunctional families. . . Reading Mendelson’s easy, assured prose is like sinking into something soft and velvety’ – <i>Telegraph</i></b>
<b>‘I read and adored <i>Almost English </i>. . . and now I will read everything she’s ever written. Charlotte Mendelson is a fiendishly gifted writer’ – Marian Keyes</b>
ISBN: 9781035020171
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 416
Edition: 01