Hideous Kinky

[CuriousMama]

Watching it now and think I saw it years ago? It's supposed to be good and based on real life?

Kids are cute

Yes, it's based on RL. I know the author - distant relative.

My childhood was rather similar, though in South London rather than Marrakesh

The book is really worth reading.

Ooo hester will you be my new BFF?

Love interest alone makes it worth watching

Thanks for book tip I'll get it, may be able to order it through the library?

I'm always up for a new BFF

You might also want to look at a book by another friend called 'Mothers and other lovers' - kind of Hideous Kinky based in Truro. Us hippy children had a lot to work through...

Oh ds1 calls me hippy mother. He loves his 'hippy mum's quote of the day'. Typical 14 year old. I do read tarot, do reiki, have lots of 'hippy' frends etc.. but don't think I'd take them off to Morroco?

I want those rugs, will go with the Moroccan paintings I did. I just love the vibrancy of Morocco. Never been but would love to. A friend goes, she has a male friend there. They don't speak each others language though, wonder what they have in common?

Bless him, he'll probably become a Tory-voting estate agent just to spite you . Not really, actually, all the hippy children I grew up with all still hold pretty much the same values they were raised with.

I think the mother portrayed in HK was very, very young - which probably makes a huge difference. Just like lots of young people who go wandering the globe today - only with children.

Oh he detests the Tories and the Daily Mail. I'm not a true hippy, live a very normal life now but could write a book myself on exdh's exploits and the rest. Keep saying to my friends I will one day but am too lazy tbh. Plus I could never get away with it being auto biographical as people would think it was fiction!

I had a version of the book years ago as a freebie on a magazine , really enjoyed the book and have seen the film a few times.

I know they're fantastic actresses.

Just ordered it online at the library. Can't get the other book you recommended hester so will buy it.

The little one reminds me of Fairuza Balk, who was in REturn to Oz.

I don't think I've seen that one?

It's a follow-up to the Wizard of Oz, made in the 90s I think. Really creepy and scary (starts with Dorothy committed to an asylum because she won't stop talking about Oz, and taken for ECT). Not really for children, but she is marvellous in it.

I loved the book. It was fantastic, I highly recommend it.

Christ the wheelers in Return to Oz terrified me. As did the talking rocks. A brilliant film.

What happened to fairuza Balk, she was a promising actress, haven't seen her in anything since American History X.

Yes, I've read HK and Peerless flats by E Freud - both great reads.

Yes, the wheelers = stuff of nightmares.

Here she is in it: www.youngactressreviews.org/reviews/return_to_oz/fairuza_balk.jpg

I think Fairuza Balk was in The Craft and American History x, not sure what she's doing now. She always played leftfield roles, didn't she? A bit Winona Ryder.

Oh it's the posh wife from Benidorm

Well I'll put return to Oz on my list of movies. If I get time to watch as have 5 books on order at the library now

I love Morrocco. I would've loved to have travelled on the Marrakesh Express and dropped out!!

The authors mother has just died. She lived near me and was the most lovely lady! She went to hospital, told them she didnt feel well, was admitted and didnt come home.....Very very sad!

The book was fantastic!

The author's father just died, too. Very sad.

Good film. Brilliant book.

I think her mother and father died within two weeks of each other!