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A funny and heartwarming memoir about an Iranian girl growing up in 1980s BritainIn the tradition of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love and Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, comes a story of a young narrator in the midst of her eccentric family. But rather than landed gentry or bohemian travellers, it's a mad extended Iran clan who flee Tehran to 1980s Britain after the fall the Shah.Five year old Shappi and her beloved brother Peyvand arrive with their parents in London - all cold weather and strange food - without a word of English. If adapting to a new culture isn't troubling enough, it soon becomes clear that the Ayatollah's henchmen are in pursuit. With the help of MI5, Shappi's family go into hiding. So apart from checking under the family car for bombs every morning, Shappi's childhood is like any other kids - swings in the park, school plays, kiss-chase and terrorists.
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Biography & Autobiography, Humor (Nonfiction), Nonfiction, Social life and customs, Exiles, Manners and customs, Iranians, Race relations, Biography, Childhood and youth, Iranians, foreign countries, London (england), social life and customs, Great britain, race relations, Women comedians, Iran, biography, Great britain, biographyShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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A Beginner's Guide to Acting English: The True Story of a Family on the Run in a Foreign Country... England
August 24, 2010, Ebury Press
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0091924774 9780091924775
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A Beginner's Guide to Acting English
2009, Ebury Publishing
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1407028634 9781407028637
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A Beginner's Guide To Acting English
Publish date unknown, Charnwood
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144480619X 9781444806199
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