Charlotte Mendelson

Almost English (eBook, ePUB)

the heart-breaking Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of The Exhibitionist

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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 Modern Family and it's irresistible' - The Times

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 . . .

'A deliciously funny tale of dysfunctional families. . . Reading Mendelson's easy, assured prose is like sinking into something soft and velvety' - Telegraph

'I read and adored Almost English . . . and now I will read everything she's ever written. Charlotte Mendelson is a fiendishly gifted writer' - Marian Keyes

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447219989
• Artikelnr.: 39074641

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Mendelson's last novel, When We Were Bad , was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year in the Observer , Guardian , Sunday Times , New Statesman and Spectator . She is also the author of Love in Idleness and Daughters of Jerusalem , which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Almost English is her fourth novel.

www.charlottemendelson.com

@CharlotteMende1

Rezensionen

'Charlotte Mendelson is much admired by the cognoscenti and Almost English ought to be a bestseller. The account of a girl from a family of Hungarian aunts, dealing with love and old lechers at a ghastly boarding school in the 1980s, is sheer bliss - pure rueful comedy with endless resourcefulness . . . I adore her novels and wish there were many more of them' Philip Hensher, Spectator