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Literature.
Romance.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML:”[A] charming, funny, touching, and relevant comedy.” —The Boston Globe
“A provocative yet sweet romantic comedy.” —People, Best of Fall 2020
This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she’d been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she’s a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn’t exactly looking for love—she’s more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It’s not a match anyone one could have predicted. He’s of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through.
Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person—someone you didn’t see coming.… (meer)
Lucy (42), lerares Engels en sectievoorzitter op een scholengemeenschap in Londen, is in voorjaar 2016 aan het scheiden van de man met wie ze twintig jaar getrouwd was en met wie ze veel gemeen leek te hebben. Maar het huwelijk liep fout, ook omdat Paul verslaafd raakte aan alcohol en coke. Als ze een oppas voor haar twee zoons van acht en tien zoekt, vraagt ze de aardige jongen Joseph die op zaterdag een bijbaan bij de slager heeft. Hij valt erg in de smaak bij de zoons en Joseph voelt zich aangetrokken tot Lucy die hij van de winkel kent. Dat is wederzijds, ze belanden in bed en krijgen een relatie, al is hij veel jonger (22), uit een totaal andere wereld (muziek, games, sport) en zwart. Voor hen is de vraag of het blijvend is of een tussenfase? De roman leest als een trein, zet aan het denken over relaties en geeft bovendien een levendig beeld van Engeland ten tijde van het Brexit-referendum en de strijd die dit oproept.. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Were we to evaluate people, not only according to their intelligence and their education, their occupation and their power, but according to the kindliness and their courage, their imagination and their sensitivity, their sympathy and generosity, there could be no classes. Who would be able to say the scientist was superior to the porter with admirable qualities as a father, the civil servant with unusual skill at gaining prizes to the lorry driver with unusual skill at growing roses?
—Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy
Opdracht
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To Mangerton, young and old
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
How could one say with any certainty what one hated most in the world?
Citaten
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Now all they had to do was walk, and see how far they could get.
Fiction.
Literature.
Romance.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML:”[A] charming, funny, touching, and relevant comedy.” —The Boston Globe
“A provocative yet sweet romantic comedy.” —People, Best of Fall 2020
This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she’d been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she’s a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn’t exactly looking for love—she’s more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It’s not a match anyone one could have predicted. He’s of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through.
Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person—someone you didn’t see coming.
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