Learn to speak correctly. Mantle H.

A collection of stories of a two-time laureate of the Buker Prize.

These sharp, sometimes funny, taken from life of history dates back to the beginning of the 1950s. Their heroes live in the closed world of the factory village in North of England, where the area of ​​"extinguisher by cruel winds and rude gossipes."

in the story "King Billy - Gentleman" will have to come to terms with the loss of his father and an insoluble mystery Heritage. The “Way of Beauty is Wind” tells about the power of friendship and (almost) disaster in a landfill. In the story of “studying to speak correctly, Hilary Mantic corrects his northern dialect with the help of a former actress, who“ only one easy ”and“ very noticeable Manchester accent ”, and the heroine of the story“ on the third floor ” - is amazed at how her mother acquires A new personality, regardless of prejudice.