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Not long after her parents' separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother and their newly divorced mother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother is all alone, only thirty-one years of age, with three young children and a Labrador. It is no wonder, when you put it like that, that she becomes a menace and a drunk. And a playwright. Worried about the bad playwriting - though more about becoming wards of court and being sent to the infamous Crescent Home for Children - Lizzie and her sister decide to contact, by letter, suitable men in the area. In order to stave off the local social worker they urgently need to find a new man at the helm. By the author of the much-loved Love, Nina comes a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about a family's fall from grace and the horrors of being an attractive divorcée in an English village in the 1970s.
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Man at the Helm, Nina Stibbe
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- Année de publication
- 2014
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- Titre
- Man at the Helm
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Nina Stibbe
- Éditeur
- Viking
- Publié
- 2014
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0241003164
- ISBN13
- 9780241003169
- Séries
- Lizzie Vogel
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Romans historiques, Humour, Famille, Femmes, Littérature contemporaine, Relations, Enfants, Littérature britannique, Angleterre, Littérature anglaise, Comédies, Relations familiales, Villes, Mères, Enquête, Frères et sœurs, Père, Nouveau Départ, Divorce, Campagne, Tragédie, Humour Noir
- Première publication
- 2014
- Titre original
- Man at the Helm
- Évaluation
- 3,6 sur 5
- Description
- Not long after her parents' separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother and their newly divorced mother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother is all alone, only thirty-one years of age, with three young children and a Labrador. It is no wonder, when you put it like that, that she becomes a menace and a drunk. And a playwright. Worried about the bad playwriting - though more about becoming wards of court and being sent to the infamous Crescent Home for Children - Lizzie and her sister decide to contact, by letter, suitable men in the area. In order to stave off the local social worker they urgently need to find a new man at the helm. By the author of the much-loved Love, Nina comes a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about a family's fall from grace and the horrors of being an attractive divorcée in an English village in the 1970s.