Almost English

Almost English
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Publisher : Mantle
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9781743512821
ISBN-13 : 1743512821
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Book Synopsis Almost English by : Charlotte Mendelson

Download or read book Almost English written by Charlotte Mendelson and published by Mantle. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 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 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 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.


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