Jerramy Fine

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Books

Someday My Prince Will Come by Jerramy Fine
Most young girls dream of becoming a princess. But unlike most girls, Jerramy Fine never grew out of
it. Strangely drawn to the English royal family since she was a toddler,Jerramy finds Peter Phillips
(the Queen’s oldest grandson) in a royal family tree when she is only six years old, and decides
immediately that he will be her future husband. But growing up with hippie parents (who gave her a
boy’s name!) in the middle of a rodeo-loving farm town makes finding her prince a much bigger
challenge than Jerramy ever bargained for.

She spends her childhood writing love-letters to Peter c/o Buckingham Palace, and years later, when
her sense of destiny finally brings her to London, she must navigate the murky waters of English
social circles, English etiquette and English dating. Along the way, she meets Princess Anne(Peter’s
mother), befriends Earl Spencer, and parties with the Duchess of York.

Yet life is not the Hugh Grant movie she hoped it would be. Her flatmates are lunatics, London is
expensive, and English boys can be infuriating. But just when she thinks it might be time to give up
and return to America, Peter magically appears in her life.

Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young, and she's in Paris. Having
dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even
the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married
man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and
jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world"; an entanglement with a charming
psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador.But an education like this doesn't
come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or
can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence?

Playing With Grown-ups by Sophie Dahl
Kitty's mother, Marina, is both utterly beguiling and terrifyingly embarrassing, and more often than
not Kitty can only gaze on her antics with awe and toe-curling trepidation. But as Kitty grows up it
becomes clear that perhaps Marina isn't the most exemplary of parents, and that sometimes a girl
might have to put herself first. Sophie Dahl writes with a keen eye, a warm heart and wonderful
lyricism about a coming-of-age that's quite unlike any other.

The English American by Alison Larkin
When Pippa Dunn, adopted as an infant and raised terribly British, discovers that her birth parents
are from the American South, she finds that “culture clash” has layers of meaning she’d never
imagined. Meet The English American, a fabulously funny, deeply poignant debut novel that sprang
from Larkin’s autobiographical one-woman show of the same name.
 
In many ways, Pippa Dunn is very English: she eats Marmite and toast, knows how to make a proper cup of tea, went to a posh English boarding school, finds it entirely familiar to discuss the crossword
rather than exchange any cross words over dinner with her proper English family.But Pippa--creative,
disheveled, and impulsive to the core--has always felt different from her perfectly poised, smartly
coiffed sister and steady, practical parents, whose pastimes include Scottish dancing, gardening,
and watching cricket.
 
When Pippa learns at age twenty-eight that her birth parents are from the American South, she feels
that lifelong questions have been answered. She meets her birth mother, an untidy, artistic, free
spirited red-head, and her birth father, a charismatic (politically involved) businessman in
Washington, D.C.; and moves to America to be near them. At the same time, she relies on the guidance
of a young man with whom she feels a mysterious connection; a man who discovered his own estranged father, and who, like her birth parents, seems to understand her in a way that no one in her life has done before. Pippa feels she has found her “self” and everything she thought she wanted. But has she?
 
Caught between two opposing cultures, two sets of parents, and two completely different men Pippa is
plunged into hilarious, heart-wrenching chaos. The birth father she adores turns out to be involved
in neoconservative activities she hates; the mesmerizing mother who once abandoned her now refuses
to let her go. And the man of her fantasies may be just that…

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach...Everybody
who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with
bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young,
handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one
knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing
that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.