For Kitty, growing up at Hay House amongst bluebell woods and doting relations is heaven. But for her mother, the restless Marina, a bohemian beauty who paints and weeps with alacrity, this comfortable domesticity cannot provide the novelty and excitement she craves. Marina is utterly beguiling, but more often than not Kitty can only gaze on her antics with awe and toe-curling trepidation.
When Swami-ji, MarinaÂ?s Guru, sees MarinaÂ?s future in New York, the family relocates, leaving Kitty exiled in a colorless boarding school. Reprieve comes in the form of the GuruÂ?s summons to the ashram; but then, just as Kitty is approaching enlightenment, she and Marina are off again, leaving for an England that is now fast and unfamiliar. This time no god, man, or martini can staunch MarinaÂ?s hunger for a happiness that proves all too elusive. And Kitty, turning fifteen, must choose: whether to play dangerous games with the grown-ups or begin to put herself first.
Playing with the Grown-ups is an enchanting novel about growing up in a loving, utterly chaotic household; it is also hilarious, heartbreaking, and scandalous. The offbeat and often comic adventures of the free-spirited heroinesÂ?Marina and Kitty alikeÂ?will remind readers of Breakfast at TiffanyÂ?s. With her magnificent talent for storytelling and creating unconventional characters, Sophie Dahl ably carries on the literary legacy of her grandfather, the beloved childrenÂ?s book author, Roald Dahl.
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Book details

• Format Hardcover
• Pages269 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN100385524617
• ISBN139780385524612