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Item Details
Title:
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ALMOST ENGLISH
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By: |
Charlotte Mendelson |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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ISBN 10: |
1447220005 |
ISBN 13: |
9781447220008 |
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Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
27 March, 2014 |
Edition: |
Main Market Ed. |
Pages: |
400 |
Description: |
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013: the extraordinary, warm and witty novel from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of When We Were Bad. |
Synopsis: |
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 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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UK |
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Picador |
Prizes: |
Long-listed for Women's Prize for Fiction 2014
Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013
Long-listed for Green Carnation Prize 2013 |
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Returnable |
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A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
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