Almost English
Mendelson, Charlotte, 1972-2013
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Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there. In a tiny flat in West London, 16-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?
Main title:
Almost English / Charlotte Mendelson.
Author:
Mendelson, Charlotte, 1972-, author
Imprint:
London : Mantle, 2013.London : Mantle, 2013.
Collation:
390 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781447219972 (hbk)9781447219989 (ePub ebook)144721997X
Dewey class:
823.9'2
Local class:
FICFFT
Language:
English
BRN:
629556