{"product_id":"when-we-were-bad-9781035020195","title":"When We Were Bad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Mendelson's novels include \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Bad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlmost English\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Exhibitionist\u003c\/i\u003e. She has won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, has been longlisted for the Man Booker, and has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of one work of non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eRhapsody in Green\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the gardening correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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 -- Viv Groskop * The Observer *\u003cbr\u003eFast-paced and engaging. Brilliant, touching and true -- Naomi Alderman, Women's Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dazzling portrait of a family in crisis * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA completely brilliant book. Breathtakingly good -- Barbara Trepido, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBrother of the More Famous Jack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAssured, inventive and entertaining . . . Brilliantly climactic . . . Intelligent and witty. The Rubin family may be a singular one but the delights and the difficulties its members have with sex and spirituality, food and domesticity, expectation and achievement, will have a universal appeal * The Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eFunny and emotionally true, this is a comedy with the warmest of hearts and the most deliciously subversive of agendas * Marie Claire *\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Mendelson’s \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Bad\u003c\/i\u003e will take its place among classic accounts of tribal misadventure with the same apparent effortlessness that proves so pleasurable in her writing. Rarely can readers of contemporary fiction feel themselves to be in such safe hands -- Hannah Betts * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eWritten with tremendous authority, insight, humour and even wisdom . . . Convincing and moving . . . Funny, absorbing and certain to linger in the imagination * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eNever has the perfect family cracked and crumbled with such elegance, warmth and humour -- Meg Rosoff, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow We Live Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRarely has the suffocating hold of family life been so powerfully portrayed as it has here . . . Mendelson’s great achievement is to make us care . . . Uncompromising and brave * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eWith great delicacy and elliptical prose, Mendelson draws a subtle and compassionate picture of a family as it unravels.  A novel about secrets and the damage they cause * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eCompelling . . . A poignant and compassionate novel of a family in crisis as one member after another faces some home truths * Woman \u0026amp; Home *\u003cbr\u003eSecret thoughts and unnameable hangups are teased out in glowing, metaphorical and often very funny prose . . . Mendelson explores the shadows and ghosts haunting a family which appears to outsiders to be a harmonious, messy, intellectual ideal * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant . . . highly entertaining -- Matthew Reisz * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eQuite superlative * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eImmensely funny and affecting . . . A novel that wittily and searingly explores the relationships between parents and their adult children . . . an elegant comedy of longing and survival * LA Times *\u003cbr\u003eAstute, affectionately mocking prose and a wicked but merciful intelligence * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003eAbsolutely spellbinding, so funny, so moving, so totally believable -- Jacqueline Wilson","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47836674589015,"sku":"9781035020195","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781035020195.jpg?v=1710380575","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-we-were-bad-9781035020195","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}