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Bezig met laden... May Contain Nutsdoor John O'Farrell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Hilarious, sweet, fun and crazy. Love those qualities...in a book. ( ) Motherhood red in tooth and claw. Children play a central role in the battle of the upper-middle-class snobs, where a place at the prestigious private school is the ultimate prize. Ambitious, neurotic, paranoid parents ferry their 11-year-olds from maths tutor to fencing lessons, insulating them in their posh streets and mammoth 4x4s from the evil influence of people who are not like us (mainly because they don't have as much money). The author's observations on the aspirational middle class are comically exaggerated, but nevertheless they have real satirical teeth. Occasionally I laughed out loud. Towards the end, the playing out of the book's moral message inevitably takes some of the edge off the humour, but there are still some delightful one-liners. If you have mentally put your toddler down for a college at Oxford or Cambridge, or regard family games mainly as a way of cramming facts into your child's head, then this is the book you need to read. MB 14-xi-2008 geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother who feels so permanently panic-stricken at the terrors of the modern world - or is it normal to sit up in bed all night popping bubble wrap? She worries that too much gluten and dairy may be hindering her children's mental arithmetic. She frets that there are too many cars on the road to let them out of the 4x4. Finally she resolves to take control and tackle her biggest worry of all: her daughter is definitely not going to fail that crucial secondary school entrance exam. Because Alice has decided to take the test in her place... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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