Description

The debut novel from the writer of Summer at Gaglow, named "a near-seamless meshing of family background, experience and creativity" by the Brand New York Times Book Review. Avoiding grey London in 1972, an attractive, established mom takes her kids, aged 7 and 5, to Morocco looking for experience, a much better existence, and perhaps love. Hideous Kinky uses two little English girls -- the five-year-old narrator and Bea, her seven-year-old cousin -- because they find it difficult to create some semblance of normal life on a holiday to Morocco using their hippie mother, Julia. When in Marrakech, Julia immerses himself in Sufism and her search for personal satisfaction, while her kids rebel -- the older by attempting to re-create her British lifestyle, younger by switching her expectations for a dad on the most unlikely prospect.