# The Lubetkin Legacy

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- Book: [The Lubetkin Legacy](https://www.bookquiver.com/marina-lewycka/the-lubetkin-legacy) ([The Lubetkin Legacy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/marina-lewycka/the-lubetkin-legacy.md))
- Authors: [Marina Lewycka](https://www.bookquiver.com/marina-lewycka)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4193-249-1
- Published: 2016-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you. A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Swahili or buxom housing officers talking managementese. A place where husbands go absent without leave and councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new builds.