EAN: 9780141044958

MARINA LEWYCKA - GEBRAUCHT THE LUBETKIN LEGACY ...

'Lively . . . a joy to read' - The TimesShortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse
prizeFrom the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in UkrainianNorth London in the
twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from
hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother  rather than lose the council flat.A time of
golden job opportunities  though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an
intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits
on you.A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian  Ukrainian  Russian  Swahili or buxom
housing officers talking managementese.A place where husbands go absent without leave and
councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new builds.Marina Lewycka is back in this
hilarious  farcical  tender novel of modern issues and manners.

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