Hideous Kinky
Author: Esther Freud
This novel is semi-autobiographical and based on the author’s own experience of traveling with her mother Bernadine Coverley, in North Africa, between the ages of four and six. Weaving between the vivid descriptions of life on the move, the desert, and its cast of exotic characters, is a deeply moving and poignant tale of what it’s like, as a child, to be part of an unconv….Read More
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