She isn’t noticing that, at Combe Abbey, things are starting to go terribly wrong. 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 is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn’t know how to fit in, flirt or even be. At Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake. But the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider. Imprisoned by her family’s crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there. : When We Were Bad (9780547085920) by Mendelson, Charlotte and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The extraordinary new novel from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of When We Were Bad. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013
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