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Thomas Dunne
March 2015
On Sale: March 3, 2015
Featuring: Struan Robertson; Phillip Prys
320 pages
ISBN: 1250059771
EAN: 9781250059772
Kindle: B00MLMI94E
Hardcover / e-Book
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Romance | Fiction
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's large house, they are each too
busy with their peculiar obsessions to do it themselves.
As
the city bakes, Struan finds himself tangled in a
midsummer's dream of mistaken identity, giddying property
prices, wild swimming, and overwhelming passions. For
everyone, it is to be a life-changing summer. Meeting the English is a bright book about dark subjects--
a
tale about kindness and its limits, told with love. Spiked
with witty dialogue and jostling with gleeful, zesty
characters, it is a glorious debut novel from an acclaimed
writer of poetry, non-fiction, and short stories.
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