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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A delightful, light read, showing the ingenuity of children., 22 Jan 2001
Hideous Kinky is a delightful story of a young hippy mother travelling to Morocco with two young children to find herself. She seems oblivious to their needs, considering her search for enlightment and personal freedom of paramont importance.Through the eyes of the youngest daughter we see, feel and smell Morocco. The children are caught up with the day to day, searching for food, mixing with street children and market people, all of whom are desparately trying to stay alive in a very harsh climate and society. Throughout their adventures these children find fun, entertainment and magic and do not see the dangers their mother has placed them in. They are delightfully open and easy with the people they meet. As time goes by however the children begin to desire a return to security, family and normality. Seeing routine - school, homework, and of course some of the pleasures of the West, Christmas presents and ice cream. Perfect reading for the tube, bus or before falling asleep. A pleasant story, simple and uncomplicated. A complete contrast to the morbid, graphic, black humour of Angela's Ashes, with it's gritty accuracy and depressing reality of a Catholic, Irish upbringing. This is a story of a middle class mother and her children, playing at adventure, with the ultimate security of a middle class family to turn to at times of difficulties.
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by Peter Mayne
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