The Lubetkin legacy / Marina Lewycka.
Publication details: London : Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.Description: 357 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 1905490569
- 9781905490561
- 9780241249215
- 823.92 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | LEW | Available | 064742 |
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North 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.