9 Best fiction books like Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

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Hideous Kinky

By: Esther Freud

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When her mother decides to take her and her sister away from life as they know it and move to Moroc…

If you liked the fiction plot in Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Return of the Soldier

By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more

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  • fiction
"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

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2. The Women's Room

By: Marilyn French

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found . The bestselling feminist novel that awakened both women … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism

By: Slavenka Drakulić

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional author… read more

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  • fiction
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4. A Zoo in My Luggage

By: Gerald Durrell , Ralph Thompson

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Fans of Gerald Durrell's timeless classic My Family and Other Animalswill love this hilarious tale,… read more

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  • travel
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5. Hideous Kinky

By: Esther Freud

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When her mother decides to take her and her sister away from life as they know it and move to Moroc… read more

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  • morocco
  • africa
  • travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
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6. Tell-All

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.40

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

The hyperactive love child of Page Sixand Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?caught in a tawdry love tr… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

7. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with … read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away book and Esther Freud's Hideous Kinky

  • travel
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8. Nerve

By: Dick Francis

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rob Finn was a bit of a misfit: a struggling young jockey in a family of accomplished musicians, a … read more

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  • fiction

9. Notes from an Exhibition

By: Patrick Gale

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her sa… read more

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10. Dead Cert

By: Dick Francis

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

As jockey Alan York looked at the back of Bill Davidson astride the great horse Admiral, one thing … read more

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11. The Private Lives of the Tudors

By: Tracy Borman

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth I The Tudor monarchs were cons… read more

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12. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

By: Gillian Rose

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more

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13. The Passion of New Eve

By: Angela Carter

4.54

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become… read more

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14. On The Black Hill

By: Bruce Chatwin

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

On the Black Hillis an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in r… read more

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15. The Other Side of the Bridge

By: Mary Lawson

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of j… read more

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16. Some Tame Gazelle

By: Barbara Pym

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

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17. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Esther Freud's Hideous Kinky

  • travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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18. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

19. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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20. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

Similar categories in Hanako Footman's Mongrel book and Esther Freud's Hideous Kinky

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

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21. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

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