![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, Marina’s father returns to the scene, distracting Laura completely from everything else. Her rather inept mother Laura does not notice how unhappy and homesick Marina is, because she has similar problems in her rather directionless life, including her sex life. Marina misses her friends from Ealing school, does not know how to fit in, grapples with teenage problems such as sex, and whether to study medicine or history. In Charlotte Mendelson’s fourth novel, Almost English, protagonist Marina Farkas leaves her Central-European relations with whom she shares a tiny flat in London behind to embark on her sixth-form year at Combe, a minor boarding school which has recently opened its doors to admit girls. ![]()
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