Sunday, April 17, 2005

Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

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(192 pages)
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This novel is about a feckless young mother and her two daughters in Morocco in the 1960s. While mum immerses herself in the Sufi religion, the children begin to rebel: Bea insists on going to school while the five-year-old narrator dreams of mashed potato.

A nice quick read, with a fascinating narrator and a cast of strange and intriguing characters.

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