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WELCOME TO THE 1980sWELCOMW TO CAMBRIDGEWELCOME TO FREYA'S WORLDAdolescence is never easy. And for fourteen-year-old Freya it's bewildering. Brought up by parents who act like teenagers, and surrounded by teenagers all too desperate to be grown-ups - it's no wonder she feels like a social anomaly.Her mother, Millie,Hoped her daughter would become her best gal pal. Instead, her fondest communications reach Freya in the form of notes left on the fridge door:FEED RABBITS!CHEESE IN FRIDGE ONLY ONE DAY OUT OF DATEBE LESS SCARY.Her father, Hugh, is struggling to keep his property business afloat. 'When there's a recession on, you have to keep an eye on the figures,' he once said - If only he'd listened to his own advice . . . And when her parents break dramatically with marital convention, they leave Freya in turmoil as she realizes that, for Millie and Hugh, three is not a crowd. In desperation, Freya goes looking for love in all the wrong places . . . WELCOME TO LIFE is a sparkling, darkly humorous, and provocative novel about family, friendship, and becoming a grown-up.
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Freya is fourteen and struggling. Her mum doesn't appear to have any maternal instinct; her father likes the simple life; her best friend is an old lady; and then there's the 'lodger' - but whose bed is he really sleeping in? Welcome to Life is a searing comedy of manners & mores set in 80s England that fans of Alice Sebold and My Summer of Love by Helen Cross will adore.
About the Author:
Alice de Smith was born in Cambridge, educated at Oxford and now lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where she writes for Live Theatre. She has written for publications including The Times, the Mail on Sunday, and Cosmopolitan. Welcome to Life is her first novel.
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- ISBN 10 1843549832
- ISBN 13 9781843549833
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