Hideous Kinky: A Novel

Based on the author's own Bohemian childhood, the fresh and picaresque Hideous Kinky follows two English girls -- the five-year- old narrator and her seven-year-old sister, Bea -- on a journey through North Africa in the mid '60s. Carted to Morocco by their hippie mother and her boyfriend -- not to mention his wife! -- the girls are often left to their own devices. While their freedom-loving Mum immerses herself in Sufism and sexual adventures, the girls struggle unsuccessfully to find norm...