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Another cultural term that jarred me was pudding. I think of pudding as a specific dessert whereas this author uses it as a generic term for dessert: "he enjoyed the apple pie I made for pudding."

The author does something similar with the word stood: "many of them were stood so far away they looked like a dot . . ." and "he was stood at the bar . . .". In American English, we'd likely use standing in place of stood.

Some of the phrasing is unusual. When I first read, "Sat on top of the silver satin duvet cover lay Max . . . ", I attributed it to poor editing. But that particular turn of phrase continued to pop up throughout the book. In American English we'd be more likely to substitute seated or sitting for sat.