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Synopsis

A four-year-old girl relates her experiences as she is dragged around the hippy trail in Morocco by her mother. Her older sister is an ally, but sometimes an enemy, and men drift in and out of their mother's life. This novel is a picture of the 1960s hippy dream and the betrayals of childhood.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Esther Freud's best-known novel, which inspired the Kate Winslet film, published as Penguin Essential for the first time.Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English life but a quest for personal fulfilment; her children, however, seek something more solid and stable amidst the shifting desert sands.'Just open the book and begin, and instantly you will be first of all charmed, then intrigued and finally moved by this fascinating story' Spectator.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English life but a quest for personal fulfilment; her children, however, seek something more solid and stable amidst the shifting desert sands.'Just open the book and begin, and instantly you will be first of all charmed, then intrigued and finally moved by this fascinating story' Spectator.

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