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Book SynopsisFrom the author of The Power, winner of the Women''s Prize for Fiction''Sharp, funny and poignant'' - Hilary Mantel Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit''s father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind.Funny, tender and insightful - GuardianTrade ReviewFunny, tender and insightful * Guardian *A wonderful novel . . . rich and fresh and fascinating * Sunday Times *

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women''s Prize for Fiction 2017IT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH A SACRIFICE... It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. Rumours spread. Rebels attacked the greatest empire the world had ever known. The empire gathered its forces to make those rebels pay. And in the midst of all of that, one preacher by the name of Jesus died. And either something miraculous happened or someone lied. This is the truth according to The Liars'' Gospel.Trade ReviewWitty, dark and compelling -- Charlotte MendelsonThe dark wit that characterised her previous novels, Disobedience and The Lessons, runs through this book as an undercurrent, but The Liars' Gospel shows the hand of a mature novelist, a daring and accomplished work on a broad canvas. She is as much at home describing the sorrow of a mother as the cut and thrust of theological debate, as convincing on the weariness of a man forced into moral compromise as the rush of blood in a teenage boy caught up in his first riot. She paints the sweep of history through the sharp pain of human love and loss, and it is a remarkable achievement. -- Stephanie Merritt * The Observer *Exciting, entertaining and enthralling read - this is story telling of the very highest order. It's certainly one of my books of the year. * Bookbag *Remarkable. Alderman is a supremely talented writer -- Joanne HarrisA series of thoughtful, humane sketches that seek to earnestly put the meat of character on the bones of the bible... An evocative, secular exploration of the New Testaments' sprawling horizons * Metro *Marvellously told and wonderfully done -- Maeve KennedySuch intensity ... a big book about history and violence, you can feel the blood running off the page. It is also a very personal and human book -- Dreda Say MitchellFirst piece I've read that puts you completely into the Jewish history. A fascinating new look -- Cahal DallatGripping and visceral -- Arifa Akbar * The Independent *'The descriptions of violence are visceral. Parts could be describing contemporary Afghanistan with only a change of names... indisputably elegant. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *Stunningly accomplished ... a novel of such intensity, meaning and depth that it must be destined to become a classic -- BidishaBrilliantly evocative... Naomi Alderman has given us an entire Jewish gospel. Yehoshuah is a Jewish Jesus, the creation of a Jewish novelist; and yet it is the genius and the generosity of Alderman's novel, it seems to me, that it does not preclude an alternative perspective, one in which mystery does indeed haunt the events it describes. -- Tom Holland * Guardian *

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