# Various Pets Alive and Dead

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- Authors: [Marina Lewycka](https://www.bookquiver.com/marina-lewycka)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-494-1
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2013-02-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 . . .