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Thursday, July 2, 2009

i conquer britain: dyan sheldon


RM10

From Amazon.com:


In this companion novel to Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America (2005), Cherokee Salamanca travels to England from her home in Brooklyn. With visions of Dickens, mini-skirts and the Beatles floating in her head, she is surprised to find that Putney is a lot more like New Jersey than the London she'd been expecting. Her hosts are well-mannered, neat and quiet, but all of that politeness is keeping them from actually talking to each other - something that Cherokee has no problem doing. Cherokee finds that under the surface the Pitt-Turnbull's are just as eccentric as her own family back home; they just hide it better. She decides that she is going to bring the family back together and get them talking. That's a tall order for such a short visit, but Cherokee is used to a challenge. Light and funny, Sheldon's characters are smart, offbeat and completely real.

"Hilarious." The Financial Times on Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America"