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As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime A Times, Guardian, and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year for 2022 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 'It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill, and a deep reservoir of sadness to ...

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'As intelligent as it is funny. A beautifully observed literary comedy as well as a painfully accurate description of one big old family mess. A joy' - Observer In North London, Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife, mother, rabbi - and s...

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'Brilliant . . . exhilarating . . . Exciting and memorably written, this is one of those rare reads that has you galloping to the end, but feeling bereft at having to say goodbye so soon' Independent Behind a crumbling facade of seeming normality,...

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Beautifully written and bitingly funny, Charlotte Mendelson''s prize-winning Daughters of Jerusalem is a gripping novel of hidden love and hate, of the desire to belong, and the need for escape. Amidst the crumbling yellow stone of Oxford and its ...

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?I loved it. The evocation of ennui and loneliness rings very true . . . great unexpected observations . . . very funny? Lesley Glaister Anna Raine is desperate: to escape Somerset, to evade her mother, and above all to find a model of adulthood o...

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When We Were Bad is a spellbinding, witty and poignant portrayal of a family in crisi, in love, and in denial. ''As intelligent as it is funny. A beautifully observed literary comedy as well as a painfully accurate description of one big old famil...

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'I loved it. The evocation of ennui and loneliness rings very true . . . great unexpected observations . . . very funny' Lesley Glaister Anna Raine is desperate: to escape Somerset, to evade her mother, and above all to find a model of adulthood o...

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A rising British star makes her American debut with an excoriatingly funny yet deeply humane novel about a glamorous London family that happens to be falling apart.

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INTRODUCED BY CHARLOTTE MENDELSON'It is time that justice was done to Elizabeth Taylor... All her writings could be described as coming into the category of comedy. Comedy is the best vehicle for truths that are too fierce to be borne' ANITA BROOK...

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'Excellent book.' Nigella Lawson 'Charming, inspiring, uplifting... pure lovely.' Marian Keyes 'Read Rhapsody in Green. A novelist's beautiful, useful essays about her tiny garden.' India Knight 'Glorious......

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'Excellent book.' Nigella Lawson'Charming, inspiring, uplifting... pure lovely.' Marian Keyes'Read Rhapsody in Green. A novelist's beautiful, useful essays about her tiny garden.' India Knight 'Glorious...for anyone who loves fruit, vegetables, he...

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The multi award-winning Charlotte Mendelson is famous for whipping up the hottest, messiest family dramas a writer of literary fiction can . . . This is late Shakespeare meets Modern Family and its irresistible The Times In a tiny flat in West Lon...

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Beautifully written and bitingly funny, Charlotte Mendelson's prize-winning Daughters of Jerusalem is a gripping novel of hidden love and hate, of the desire to belong, and the need for escape. Amidst the crumbling yellow stone of Oxford and ...

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When We Were Bad is a spellbinding, witty and poignant portrayal of a family in crisi, in love, and in denial. 'As intelligent as it is funny. A beautifully observed literary comedy as well as a painfully accurate description of one big old f...

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Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist is a "furiously funny" novel ( Sunday Express , UK) about a marriage between two artists, Lucia and Ray, which begins to unravel after decades of one-sided partnership over the course of one weeken...

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'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, ch...

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'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics. Her characters live vividly both in their own time, and in ours' MADELINE MILLERMary Renault is a s...

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'All my sense of the ancient world - its values, its style, the scent of its wars and passions - comes from Mary Renault. Her Theseus novels are perhaps the most exciting of her Greek fictions, and The Last of the Wine the most moving. I turned to...

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This is real life, Jake,' she said. 'You'd better wake up.' Jake is clever, lazy and scraping by in London as a hack translator. Jake loves Anna. Anna is an elusive and lovely singer. Anna loves Hugo. Hugo is a fireworks manufacturer turned movie ...

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?The multi award-winning Charlotte Mendelson is famous for whipping up the hottest, messiest family dramas a writer of literary fiction can . . . This is late Shakespeare meets Modern Family and it?s irresistible? ? The Times In a tiny flat in Wes...

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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there . . . In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mo...

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THE TIMES NOVEL OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2022 A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BOOK OF THE YEAR 'It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill, and a deep reservoir of sadness to write a novel as funny as this. I adored it' - Meg Mason, ...

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The fifth novel from Man Booker-longlisted and twice-longlisted Women's Prize author Charlotte Mendelson.

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As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime A Times , Guardian , and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year for 2022 Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction ''It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill, and a deep reservoir of sadness to write ...

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'A master at family drama' The Times 'One of the funniest writers in Britain' The Guardian Set in the world of London academia, both past and present, Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is heart-breaking and funny, profound and grippi...

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It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill and a deep reservoir of sadness to write a novel as funny as this. I adored it ' - Meg Mason, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss, on The Exhibitionist Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is a beautifully...

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