Hideous kinky

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'Just open the book and begin, and instantly you will be first of all charmed, then intrigued and finally moved by this fascinating story' - Margaret Forster in the Spectator
'With a quite remarkable skill, Esther Freud presents life on the road in Morocco with a well-meaning hippie mother from the point of view of her five-year-old daughter. To write in this context with absolute conviction and without falling into the trap of becoming sentimental, is fiendishly difficult, not least because it has to sound effortless. Freud does it beautifully' - Miranda Seymour in the
Sunday Times
'A first novel of marked skill and undisguisable charm - delightfully funny' - Norman Shrapnel in the Guardian
'A remarkable triumph Not just beautifully written, but forces the reader to look at the world of childhood in a new and exciting light' - David Robson in the Sunday Telegraph
'Written with the art that conceals art Hideous Kinky has a delightful lightness of being the landscape... Tovább

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'Just open the book and begin, and instantly you will be first of all charmed, then intrigued and finally moved by this fascinating story' - Margaret Forster in the Spectator
'With a quite remarkable skill, Esther Freud presents life on the road in Morocco with a well-meaning hippie mother from the point of view of her five-year-old daughter. To write in this context with absolute conviction and without falling into the trap of becoming sentimental, is fiendishly difficult, not least because it has to sound effortless. Freud does it beautifully' - Miranda Seymour in the
Sunday Times
'A first novel of marked skill and undisguisable charm - delightfully funny' - Norman Shrapnel in the Guardian
'A remarkable triumph Not just beautifully written, but forces the reader to look at the world of childhood in a new and exciting light' - David Robson in the Sunday Telegraph
'Written with the art that conceals art Hideous Kinky has a delightful lightness of being the landscape sparkles with allure, and minor characters stand out vividly against it. Beggars, shepherds,' innkeepers, idiots, dubious Moroccan and eccentric European ladies are funny and appealing and seen with affection, and so are Mum and determined, tyrannical Bea' - Gabriele Annan in the TLS
'Sheer delight a strange, wonderful book, full of evocative description, bright humour and melting melancholy' - Deborah Wald in Woman's Journal
Cover illustration by Lucian Freud Vissza