The debut novel from the author of Summer at Gaglow called a nearseamlessmeshing of family feeling history and imagination by the New York TimesBook Review. Esc... » 

The debut novel from the author of Summer at Gaglow called a nearseamlessmeshing of family feeling history and imagination by the New York TimesBook Review. Escaping gray London in 1972 a beautiful determined mother takesher daughters aged 5 and 7 to Morocco in search of adventure a better lifeand maybe love. Hideous Kinky follows two little English girls the fiveyearold narrator and Bea her sevenyearold sister as they struggle toestablish some semblance of normal life on a trip to Morocco with their hippiemother Julia. Once in Marrakech Julia immerses herself in Sufism and herquest for personal fulfillment while her daughters rebel the older bytrying to recreate her English life the younger by turning her hopes for afather on a most unlikely candidate.Shocking and wonderful Hideous Kinky is at once melancholy and hopeful. Aremarkable debut novel from one of Englands finest young writers HideousKinky was inspired by the authors own experiences as a child. Esther Freuddaughter of the artist Lucian Freud and greatgranddaughter of Sigmund Freudlived in Marrakech for one and a half years with her older sister Bella and hermother. Hideous Kinky is now a major motion picture starring Kate WinsletTitanic Sense and Sensibility. «