Meeting the English

Kate Clanchy

earliest edition we have, 2014 this edition, 2015

"In response to a job advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for playwright and one-time literary star Phillip Prys, dumbfounded and paralyzed by a massive stroke, because, though two teenage children, two wives, and a literary agent all rattle 'round Phillip...

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Meeting the English edition · 2015 · 310 pages · 9781250059772
Meeting the English edition · 2015 · 9781444823080
Meeting the English edition · 2014 · 310 pages · 9780330535281

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