# Foolish Lessons In Life And Love

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- Book: [Foolish Lessons In Life And Love](https://www.bookquiver.com/penny-rudge/foolish-lessons-in-life-and-love) ([Foolish Lessons In Life And Love.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/penny-rudge/foolish-lessons-in-life-and-love.md))
- Authors: [Penny Rudge](https://www.bookquiver.com/penny-rudge)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4812-213-4
- Published: 2010-09-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

When big-boned, eager-to-please, accident-prone Taras Krohe ambles into a stiff English public school on a puzzling scholarship with his funny foreign name, an eccentric and over-protective Bukovinian mother, and no father at all, disappointment beckons. A decade later, Taras and his mother are still living off their benefactress Mrs Bartlett in a cramped South London flat, while Taras's promising job has warped into a Kafkaesque nightmare, and his truculent Russian girlfriend has decamped with a ponytailed aesthete. When the mysterious Mrs Bartlett dies, an old schoolfriend with a grudge emerges and eviction looms. Now even the terminally easygoing Taras must show his mother he's a man, and uncover the secret behind his family's plummet into disaster. But she has other ideas for her little pourchi: she's determined to wrestle him away from the dangerous influences his search reveals. And it's by no means certain who will come out on top . . .