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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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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Man at the Helm
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Nina Stibbe
- Verlag
- Viking
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0241003164
- ISBN13
- 9780241003169
- Reihe
- Lizzie Vogel
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Humor, Familie, Frauen, Gegenwartsliteratur, Beziehungen, Kinder, Britische Literatur, England, Englische Literatur, Komödien, Familienbeziehungen, Städte, Mamas, Geschwister, Suche, Vater, Neuanfang, Scheidung, Land, Tragödie, Schwarzer Humor
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2014
- Originaltitel
- Man at the Helm
- Bewertung
- 3,6 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.