May Contain Nuts by John Ofarrell

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May Contain Nuts by John Ofarrell

Alice never imagined she would end up like this, so anxious after hearing about the dangers of meteorites that she makes her children wear bike helmets in the wading pool. Her husband, David, has taught their four-year-old to list every animal represented in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. But the more they push their children, the more things there are to worry about. It seems no amount of gluten rationing or herbal teas can improve their children's intellectual development, and as Alice's eldest child looks set to fail her entrance exam for the exclusive private school on which her parents have pinned all their hopes, Alice decides to take matters into her own hands. With a baseball cap pulled low over her face, Alice shuffles into a hall of two hundred kids and takes the test in place of her daughter, her first examination in twenty years. With a comic eye for detail that has sent his books to the top of the British best-seller lists, May Contain Nuts is a funny, compelling, and provocative satire of the manic world of today's overcompetitive, overprotective families.
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ISBN 13 9780802170156
ISBN 10 0802170153
Title May Contain Nuts
Author John Ofarrell
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Grove Press, Black Cat
Year published 2005-10-07
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.