Playing with the grown-ups

Sophie Dahl

Original title: Playing with the grownups

first published 2007 Bloomsbury, 2008 285 pages

To Kitty, growing up at Hay House, surrounded by bluebell woods and doting relations, is heaven. But for her mother, the restless Marina, a silver-eyed beauty who paints and weeps with alacrity, Hay cannot provide the novelty or excitement she so craves. Swami-ji, Marina's guru, sees her future in New York, and so the family is scooped up and relocated, leaving Kitty exiled in a colourless boarding school. Reprieve c...

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Playing with the grown-ups edition · 2008 · Bloomsbury · 285 pages · 9780747593522
Playing with the grownups edition · 2007 · Nan A. Talese · 269 pages · 9780385524612
Playing with the grown-ups edition · 2007 · Windsor · 289 pages · 9781405619882

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