02352cam a2200313 4500 477175620 TxAuBib 20201116120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781906994495 1906994498 B00B2Z4XNM Amazon 6598a8ab-3704-472e-af43-76e9dc7782c8 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1211542 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Selbourne, Raphael. Beauty [Bridges eBook]. Profile Books, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 405kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>Beauty - in both name and appearance - is a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi, back in</p> <p>England having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Forced onto</p> <p>the jobseeker's treadmill and under extreme domestic pressure, she cracks and runs away.</p> <p>Her encounters with officialdom, fellow claimants, and strangers in the city streets,</p> <p>complicated by the restrictions and comfort of her language and culture, place her at the</p> <p>mercy of such unlikely helpers as Mark, a friendly, Staffordshire bull terrier-breeding exoffender,</p> <p>and Peter, a middle-class underachiever on the rebound from a bitter relationship.</p> <p>With determination and good humour, Beauty moves ever closer to making her choice</p> <p>between family duty and personal freedom. All the while, however, her brothers are</p> <p>searching for her across town. Can she make the choice herself, before she's forced to?</p> <p>A sharply rendered, compassionate and challenging portrait of a fragmented, multicultural</p> <p>urban England.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-01-14 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6598A8AB-3704-472E-AF43-76E9DC7782C8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6598A8AB-3704-472E-AF43-76E9DC7782C8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6598A8AB-3704-472E-AF43-76E9DC7782C8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)