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'My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy.'
Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local boy called Pip. But when she arrives, the family is unsettling- Pip is awkward, over-literal, and adamant he doesn't need a tutor, and upstairs, his enigmatic mother Esmé casts a shadow over the house.
Enter Sofi: the family's holiday cook, a magnetic, mercurial Polish girl with appalling kitchen hygiene, who sings to herself and sleeps naked. When the father of the family goes away on business, Pip's science lessons are replaced by midday rosé and scallop-smuggling, and summer begins. Soon something surprising starts to touch the three together.
But those strange, golden weeks cannot last forever. Later, in Paris, Normandy and London, they find themselves looking for the moment that changed everything.
Compelling, dark and funny, The Last Kings of Sark is tale of complicated love, only children and missed opportunities, from an extraordinary new writer.
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Funny, vivid, bittersweet (Ned Beauman, author of The Teleportation Accident)
This is a book full of adventure and love. Like every great novel it has magic at its core. It feels very modern too, like it has been written by a writer of a new time ... A writer we will all want to read again and again (Monique Roffey, author of Archipelago)
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This is a book full of adventure and love. Like every great novel it has magic at its core. It feels very modern too, like it has been written by a writer of a new time ... A writer we will all want to read again and again (Monique Roffey, author of Archipelago)
A stunning debut novel about complicated love, only children and missed opportunities, from an extraordinary new writer.
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1844089800
- ISBN 13 9781844089802
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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The Last Kings of Sark
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Little, Brown Book Group Limited
(2013)
ISBN 10: 1844089800
ISBN 13: 9781844089802
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