If oyu liked "american wife".. "prep" also by her is fabbola

[CNyle]

great description of an outsider.
painfully accrate to read

ignore the shitty cover

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Oh yes, that's it. They had it in Borders with a "we recommend" sign and I thought I recognised his name.

Will order now.

Oh he's a she . Why did I never realise that before? It could only really have been written by a woman now i think about it.

Hmm - have read this but I didn't like it. I think it was the fact that I didn't really 'get' why she went and why her parents let her...

I wasn't overly gripped by Prep. It didn't hold my attention at all but agree that Lee was portrayed very convincingly as an outsider.

she went as she was an outsider and wanted to find out if she fitted in elsewhere
I thought it was SO SO accurate

am sahmed of the girly cover though

Oh I LOVED Prep

Found it my accident in the library, didn't know anything about the author.

Liked the names Aspeth and Cross Sugarman.

Plus went to a boarding school so all good stuff.

Well, I went to a south Wales comp so I guess my school experience is very removed from a New England prep!

yes ditto boarding school

llareregubb I admit I have a big soft spot for boarding school stories. Patrick Gale did one too.

The girl always seems to be a bit out of it, then finds her place etc etc

But I quite like the terminology.

I shall admit to a fondness for same which is why I bought prep in the first place. Perhaps I'll stick to re-reading Chalet School instead.

yes but in relaity its all screwed up kids and alocohol

she also wrote The Man of My dreams, worth checking out

I loved Prep, thought The Man of My Dreams was much weaker. Prep was apparently very autobiographical. It's a brilliant book for reminding you exactly why you don't want to be a teenager again.

They are very different books though, aren't they? I couldn't believe they were written by the same person. I enjoyed Prep a lot - but I loved American Wife.

Man Of My Dreams was so dull I can't remember anything about it!

yy agree

I saw American Wife in Waterstones the other day, and couldn't decide whether to buy it or not. I didn't in the end, is it good?

NO ITS FABBBBBBBB

I might give it a go then, have got a gift card for Waterstones to spend!

I had no idea Curtis was a woman

Am learning all sorts today, just discovered from another thread that a cucumber is not a vegetable

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Am reading American wife at the moment, enjoying so far.

'Prep' I thought had it's moments and some wonderful observations. I started off reading it thinking, i'm going to love this, but ultimately i grew to really dislike the protaganist and what happenend at the end didn't quite work for me.

So a curate's egg of a book really.

but so dated

I had real trouble picturing them from descriptions oof clothes etc