{"id":4356,"date":"2013-07-31T11:09:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T11:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2013-08-01T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:08:42","slug":"almost-english-by-charlotte-mendelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/?p=4356","title":{"rendered":"Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mendelson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4357\" title=\"mendelson\" src=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mendelson-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mendelson-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mendelson.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>Published by Mantle 15 August 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>288pp, hardcover, \u00a316.99<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Orange Prize shortlisted author Charlotte Mendelson now finds herself Mann Booker Prize longlisted with her new novel <em>Almost English,<\/em> a book about The Ugly Years \u2013 the awkward adolescence that pretty much everybody went through. It\u2019s about those searing first crushes; it\u2019s about being an outsider and trying everything you can think of to fit in.<\/p>\n<p>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 bizarre rituals, foods and expectations, by her family\u2019s crushing exuberance and their fierce pride, she knows she must escape. Only the place she runs to &#8211; Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school &#8211; makes her feel even more of an outsider.<\/p>\n<p>For an interview with Charlotte Mendelson, click on the following link:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=skHsXJon_oQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=skHsXJon_oQ&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and to see the author reading the introduction to her novel, use the following link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Va3OkJOT3Y\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Va3OkJOT3Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost English is a book about The Ugly Years \u2013 the awkward adolescence that pretty much everybody went through. It\u2019s about those searing first crushes; it\u2019s about being an outsider and trying everything you can think of to fit in. <\/p>\n<p>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 bizarre rituals, foods and expectations, by her family\u2019s crushing exuberance and their fierce pride, she knows she must escape. Only the place she runs to &#8211; Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school &#8211; makes her feel even more of an outsider.[&#8230;] in Authors and extracts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-authors-and-writing","category-extracts-and-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}