The J-word

'Did I say I was Jewish? I should be Jewish all of a sudden?' Argumentative, Yiddish-speaking, 80-year-old Jack Silver has reluctantly returned to Golders Green to care for his 10-year-old grandson, Danny. Unpredictable and outspoken but warm-hearted, Jack is resolutely secular and repudiates everything Jewish. His profoundly troubled son, now a successful middle-aged journalist, has followed in his footsteps, while the brilliant young Danny has been kept in ignorance of his heritage. When Jack is beaten up by an antisemitic gang, it changes everything. He and Danny secretly set out to outwit and track down the thugs and bring them to justice. The hunt takes Jack into memories of his own childhood and the two unlikely heroes discover a shared identity spanning generations that eventually draws the whole family together.

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"A beautiful, thoughtful portrait of the anxieties and paradoxes of modern Jewish life." Linda Grant

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Andrew Sanger is an award-winning freelance journalist and travel writer who has lived and worked in several countries, including Greece, India, the USA, and several years in the Languedoc region of southern France. He has contributed to a wide spectrum of print and online publications, including most UK national newspapers. For ten years (1990-1999) he was the editor of French Railways' popular travel magazine, Rail Europe. In recent years, his articles have appeared in Sunday Times holiday supplements, mass-market women's magazines such as Bella, inflight and customer magazines, as well as in the Jewish Chronicle, Moneyweek, and several major travel websites. In addition, Andrew has written some thirty travel guides, especially to France and French regions, but also to Ireland, Belgium, the Canary Islands and Israel. In 2007 alone, he worked on seven travel titles, including a new English edition of Michelin Green Guide France, on which he was the principal writer. Andrew Sanger now lives with his wife and child in NW London, where he is chairman of an active local residents' association. In 2005, he published LOVE, a novel of the hippy years, on the US publishing website Lulu.com. J-WORD, exploring secular Jewish identity, is his second novel.

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