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For Kitty, growing up at Hay House amongst bluebell woods and doting relations is heaven. But for her mother, the restless Marina, a bohemian beauty who paints and weeps with alacrity, this comfortable domesticity cannot provide the novelty and excitement she craves. Marina is utterly beguiling, but more often than not Kitty can only gaze on her antics with awe and toe-curling trepidation.
When Swami-ji, Marina’s Guru, sees Marina’s future in New York, the family relocates, leaving Kitty exiled in a colorless boarding school. Reprieve comes in the form of the Guru’s summons to the ashram; but then, just as Kitty is approaching enlightenment, she and Marina are off again, leaving for an England that is now fast and unfamiliar. This time no god, man, or martini can staunch Marina’s hunger for a happiness that proves all too elusive. And Kitty, turning fifteen, must choose: whether to play dangerous games with the grown-ups or begin to put herself first.
Playing with the Grown-ups is an enchanting novel about growing up in a loving, utterly chaotic household; it is also hilarious, heartbreaking, and scandalous. The offbeat and often comic adventures of the free-spirited heroines—Marina and Kitty alike—will remind readers of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. With her magnificent talent for storytelling and creating unconventional characters, Sophie Dahl ably carries on the literary legacy of her grandfather, the beloved children’s book author, Roald Dahl.
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"a somewhat guilty pleasure, like a swooning, soapier Esther Freud meets Nancy Mitford" -- Observer
'Really entertaining and amusingly written.'
-- The Independent
About the Author
SOPHIE DAHL published a small, illustrated book with Anne Morris in 2003; PLAYING WITH THE GROWN-UPS is her first novel. She has written for The Guardian and Vogue, and is at present a contributing editor at Men's Vogue. She lives in the country in England.
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- PublisherNan a Talese
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0385524617
- ISBN 13 9780385524612
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages269
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