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  • Published: 20 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141044941
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

Various Pets Alive And Dead





Lentils, free love and radical politics . . . the wonderfully funny fourth novel from Britain's bestselling comic novelist, beautifully packaged in a striking new style

For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn't. What they did do was give their children a terror of radicalism, dirt, cooking rotas and poverty. Their daughter Clara wants nothing less conformist than her own, clean bathroom. Their son Serge hides the awkward fact that he's a banker earning loadsamoney. So when Doro and Marcus spring a surprise on their kids - just as the world is rocked in ways they always wished for - the family is forced to confront some thorny truths about themselves . . .

  • Published: 20 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141044941
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka's novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. Subsequent novels include Various Pets Alive and Dead; Two Caravans; We Are All Made of Glue and The Lubetkin Legacy.

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