Meeting the English
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780330535281
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs; Care of the sick; Dysfunctional families; Manners and customs; Immigrants; Nineteen eighties
Description: Struan Robertson has read a lot of books and nursed his dying father, but he has never been to England before. Let alone a crumbling house in Hampstead where two wives, a literary agent and a pair of teenage children seem unable to care for Phillip Prys, one-time literary star, current inhabitant of a wheelchair. Struan can do that but what, he wonders, is everyone else doing? What is up with the weather, the house prices, the chronic shortage of chips and oxygen? And where, in this whirl of difference, of Pimm's and swimming ponds, artists and refugees, might the English be?
Notes: Originally published: 2013.