Laurel Sapphire's dinner parties have never been a big hit until, during the course of polite conversation, her guests discover that it never warmed up after the winter and it's now the middle of August. For Wimbledon, Kentucky, this is an anomaly, and when the realization spreads to the rest of the
East of Wimbledon
β Scribed by Williams, Nigel
- Book ID
- 109333865
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Series
- Wimbledon 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781472106773
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Robert Wilson is an aimless, chronically untruthful young Englishman who has passed himself off as a Muslim, in order to secure a job at the newly established Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys' Day School. East of Wimbledon is the hilarious story of Mr Wilson's decline and fall, as he demonstrates the failure of a post-colonial Briton to understand another great imperial culture that has absolutely no need of him.
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