Meeting the English
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In response to an advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives at a creaky mansion in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for playwright and one-time literary star Phillip Prys, dumbfounded and paralyzed by a massive stroke, because, though Phillip's two teenage children, two wives, and a literary agent all rattle 'round his large house, they are each too busy with their peculiar obsessions to do it themselves. As the city bakes, Struan finds himself tangled in a midsummer's dream of mistaken identity, giddying property prices, wild swimming, and overwhelming passions. For everyone, it is to be a life-changing summer. Kate Clanchy's Meeting the English is a bright book about dark subjects--a tale about kindness and its limits, told with love. It is a coming of age story for anyone who has ever felt themselves to be an outsider; a love story for the awkward; and a comedy for anyone who has ever lived in a family. Written by an acclaimed writer of poetry, non-fiction, and short stories, this glorious debut novel is spiked with witty dialogue and jostling with gleeful, zesty characters.
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Clanchy, K. (2015). Meeting the English. [United States], St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Clanchy, Kate. 2015. Meeting the English. [United States], St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Clanchy, Kate, Meeting the English. [United States], St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Clanchy, Kate. Meeting the English. [United States], St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.
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