Want to make it among the wealthy, upper-class students at the University of Oxford? Then you-d better have something interesting to say when people ask about your identity.
Luckily, Edward does. Though he can boast neither an expensive education nor a nice room in college, he does have a long-dead Muslim grandfather from an obscure African country... At the beginning of his second year, everyone wants to get close to him-including, to his astonishment, the beautiful and highly unstable Angelica Mountbatten-Jones.
As Edward scrabbles to fit in, his new friends start to grow suspicious. How will they react when they realise he hasn-t been entirely honest? What will Angelica do if she finds out about his complicated feelings towards a Jewish girl on his course? Will Edward manage to carve out a space for himself at Oxford, or will the truth get in the way?
A darkly comic debut, Shibboleth drags the English campus novel into
