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Author Mendelson, Charlotte, 1972- author.

Title Almost English / Charlotte Mendelson.

Publication Info. London : Mantle, [2013]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F MENDELSON, C.    Check Shelf
Description 390 pages ; 22 cm
Note Includes glossary and pronunciation.
Summary "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, Marina 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."-- Author's website.
Subject Hungarians -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Hungarians. (OCoLC)fst00964057
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
Englisch. (DE-588)4014777-0
Roman. (DE-588)4050479-7
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 9781447219972 (hbk.)
144721997X (hbk.)
9781447229933 (pbk.)
1447229932 (pbk.)
1447219988 (ePub ebook)
9781447219989 (ePub ebook)
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