Mendelson, C: Almost English -

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Résumé :
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, Combe Abbey boarding school, makes her feel even more of an outsider. ALMOST ENGLISH is a beautifully written, painfully accurate, hilariously witty coming of age tale exploring love across the generations, and a young girl's desperation to fit in without knowing quite how.

Biographie:
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.

'Mendelson's novels are perfectly balanced observations of human nature captured in all its hideous glories. As intelligent as it is funny, her writing is brilliant... A joy' Viv Groskop, Observer