Almost English

Présentation de l'éditeur Now in paperback, this warm and witty novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. 16 year old half-Hungarian Marina plans to escape her life in a tiny West London flat, but when she attends Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school, she finds that she's the awkward foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in Biographie de l'auteur 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