Want to make it among the wealthy upper-class students at the University of Oxford? Then you'd
better have something interesting to say when people ask about your identity. Luckily Edward
does. Though he can boast neither an expensive education nor a nice room in college he does
have a long-dead Muslim grandfather from an obscure African country... At the beginning of his
second year everyone wants to get close to him-including to his astonishment the beautiful
and highly unstable Angelica Mountbatten-Jones. As Edward scrabbles to fit in his new
friends start to grow suspicious. How will they react when they realise he hasn't been entirely
honest? What will Angelica do if she finds out about his complicated feelings towards a Jewish
girl on his course? Will Edward manage to carve out a space for himself at Oxford or will the
truth get in the way? A darkly comic debut Shibboleth drags the English campus novel into
the divided multicultural hyperactive present day. "A talent for comedy is rare in fiction.
Lambert has it in abundance."-Tim Parks author of Mr Geography "Engrossing and
thought-provoking."-Tomiwa Olowade author of This is Not America ¿ "Gloriously impious and
thrillingly alive."-Rob Doyle author of Threshold
