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Book SynopsisCharlotte Mendelson's novels include
Daughters of Jerusalem,
When We Were Bad,
Almost English, and
The Exhibitionist. She has won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of one work of non-fiction,
Rhapsody in Green, and is the gardening correspondent for
The New Yorker. She lives in London.
Trade ReviewThis deliciously waspish — actually, hilarious — story of a destructive Oxford academic family has stayed with me longer than many did. Pure, very wicked joy -- Andrew Holgate * The Sunday Times *
A superb, hilarious farce of dysfunctional academic family life . . . Funny, exciting, lyrical, poignant, redemptive * The Guardian *
Brilliant and witty . . . Mendelson’s second bewitchingly erotic and darkly dramatic novel confirms her as a stylish, perceptive chronicler of the heart’s hidden desires * Daily Mail *
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 *
An engaging combination of campus satire and domestic drama . . . In
Daughters of Jerusalem Mendelson has created a blue-stocking thriller * The Daily Telegraph *
Miss Marple meets Rosamond Lehmann . . . luscious prose and droll comedy . . . suffused with longing, studded with recherché words and clotted with gastronomic metaphors that make you feel that you should be reading on a chaise longe, stuffing yourself with violet creams * The Observer *
Savagely funny and hilariously cruel, it . . . convinces through the sheer power of the writing * The Sunday Times *
A delicious tale of intrigue and betrayal * The Big Issue *
Bold . . . engaging . . . an undoubted talent for comic observation * The Times *
A witty and absorbing work of fiction . . . wonderful . . . surprising and satisfying * The Times Literary Supplement *
Written with great sharpness and has thrilling detail -- Julia Darling
