Shibboleth

Want to make it among the wealthy, upper-class students at the University of Oxford? Then you'd better have something interesting to say about your identity.Luckily, Edward does. He may lack privilege and polish, but he can claim a Muslim grandfather from an obscure African country - and at Oxford, that's enough to get him noticed. He suddenly finds himself in demand, even attracting the attention of the beautiful but volatile Angelica Mountbatten-Jones.As Edward tries to belong, his carefully shaped story starts to unravel. How long before his friends grow suspicious? And what happens when his feelings - and his lies - become impossible to separate?A darkly comic debut, Shibboleth drags the English campus novel into the fractured, hyper-aware present.