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First published: 2013
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Charlotte Mendelson's moving novel Almost English looks into topics of identity, family, and clashing cultures. The drama, which takes place in a small West London apartment, centers on sixteen-year-old Marina, who shares a home with three elderly Hungarian relatives and her emotionally guarded mother Laura. Marina is desperate to get away from her family's oppressive demands, peculiar customs, and intensely un-English pride.

She makes the momentous decision to enroll in Combe Abbey, a conventional English public school, but she quickly realizes that she might have made a grave error. Laura, meanwhile, struggles with her upsetting secrets. As the story progresses, love, secrets, and unanticipated connections entwine to create a complex and moving emotional tapestry.

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Charlotte Mendelson

Charlotte Mendelson writes British fiction that often observes family loyalty, embarrassment, and the uneasy effort to belong. Almost English, published in 2013 by Mantle and later in paperback by Picador, follows Marina as she leaves her close Hungarian family for an English boarding school.

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