Mother Country

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Even her closest friend agreed that Shark Grayson wasn't Ux n her baby. A heroin addict, living in a sordid London squat, shv v** already close to death when, her American tover took charge o! Hie - . ° situation by force,, and carried off the baby Alexander to give him a loving home in the Mid-West and a But now Alex is twenty-seven, orphaned again and afflicted by a sense of lost roots and a romantic vision of what he sees as the magical and sacred, heroic and democratic, happy and glorious realm of England, A business trip provides the chance to go and trace his unknown relatives, and so another innocent American arrives m the intricate, strangely bad-tempered country that part of him yearns to belong to. He finds friendship, in homely Doreen Clark; encounters some startlingly predatory girls; and. confronts mystery (and truly terrible soup) in the eccentric alternative health centre run by the austere Julia, He discovers that while some British people are very hard to get along... Tovább

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Even her closest friend agreed that Shark Grayson wasn't Ux n her baby. A heroin addict, living in a sordid London squat, shv v** already close to death when, her American tover took charge o! Hie - . ° situation by force,, and carried off the baby Alexander to give him a loving home in the Mid-West and a But now Alex is twenty-seven, orphaned again and afflicted by a sense of lost roots and a romantic vision of what he sees as the magical and sacred, heroic and democratic, happy and glorious realm of England, A business trip provides the chance to go and trace his unknown relatives, and so another innocent American arrives m the intricate, strangely bad-tempered country that part of him yearns to belong to. He finds friendship, in homely Doreen Clark; encounters some startlingly predatory girls; and. confronts mystery (and truly terrible soup) in the eccentric alternative health centre run by the austere Julia, He discovers that while some British people are very hard to get along with - like the aloof Lady Vernon, and the gambler Alan - some turn out to be, after all, more akin to him than he could ever have imagined cfolliv 'Purves's great skill is her ability to marry her cultural and historical insights with her characters' personal development - all wrapped up in a well-paced detective story. Engrossing" P i nr?» rhe limes ves is the author of seven bestselling novels, and a familiar 4 broadcaster and Times columnist. She lives in Suffolk with 1 1 sband Paul Heiney and their son and daughter.

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