Foolish Lessons in Life & Love by debut novelist Penny Rudge is a warm and wonderfully funny first novel that launches a memorable new literary matriarch. This book is a fabulous addition to your reading group, so we now have a comprehensive reading guide that the author herself has contributed to, and you can print out for all of your group members! > View the guide. More about Foolish Lessons in Life & Love: When big-boned, eager-to-please, accident-prone Taras Krohe ambles into a stiff English public school on a puzzling scholarship with his funny foreign name, an eccentric and over-protective Bukovinian mother, and no father at all, disappointment beckons. A decade later, Taras and his mother are still living off their benefactress Mrs Bartlett in a cramped South London flat, while Taras’s promising job has warped into a Kafkaesque nightmare, and his truculent Russian girlfriend has decamped with a ponytailed aesthete. When the mysterious Mrs Bartlett dies, an old schoolfriend with a grudge emerges and eviction looms. Now even the terminally easygoing Taras must show his mother he’s a man, and uncover the secret behind his family’s plummet into disaster. But she has other ideas for her little pourchi: she’s determined to wrestle him away from the dangerous influences his search reveals. And it’s by no means certain who will come out on top...
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