Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson
From the Orange shortlisted author of When We Were Bad.
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 *
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 *
This deliciously waspish — actually, hilarious — story of a destructive Oxford academic family has stayed with me longer than many that did. Pure, very wicked joy -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times *
A superb, hilarious farce of dysfunctional academic family life . . . Funny, exciting, lyrical, poignant, redemptive * Guardian *
A witty and absorbing work of fiction… wonderful… surprising and satisfying * Times Literary Supplement *
Savagely funny and hilariously cruel, it . . . convinces through the sheer power of the writing * Sunday Times *
Miss Marple meets Rosamond Lehmann… luscious prose and droll comedy… suffused with longing, studded with recherché words and clotted with gastronomic metaphors which make you feel that you should be reading on a chaise longe, stuffing yourself with violet creams * Observer *
An engaging combination of campus satire and domestic drama . . . In Daughters of Jerusalem Mendelson has created a blue-stocking thriller * Daily Telegraph *
A delicious tale of intrigue and betrayal * Big Issue *
Bold . . . engaging . . . an undoubted talent for comic observation * The Times *
Written with great sharpness and has thrilling detail -- Julia Darling
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 *
This deliciously waspish — actually, hilarious — story of a destructive Oxford academic family has stayed with me longer than many that did. Pure, very wicked joy -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times *
A superb, hilarious farce of dysfunctional academic family life . . . Funny, exciting, lyrical, poignant, redemptive * Guardian *
A witty and absorbing work of fiction… wonderful… surprising and satisfying * Times Literary Supplement *
Savagely funny and hilariously cruel, it . . . convinces through the sheer power of the writing * Sunday Times *
Miss Marple meets Rosamond Lehmann… luscious prose and droll comedy… suffused with longing, studded with recherché words and clotted with gastronomic metaphors which make you feel that you should be reading on a chaise longe, stuffing yourself with violet creams * Observer *
An engaging combination of campus satire and domestic drama . . . In Daughters of Jerusalem Mendelson has created a blue-stocking thriller * Daily Telegraph *
A delicious tale of intrigue and betrayal * Big Issue *
Bold . . . engaging . . . an undoubted talent for comic observation * The Times *
Written with great sharpness and has thrilling detail -- Julia Darling
Charlotte Mendelson’s novel, When We Were Bad, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year in the Observer, Guardian, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Spectator. She is also the author of Love in Idleness and Daughters of Jerusalem, which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330452762 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330452762 |
| Title | Daughters of Jerusalem |
| Author | Charlotte Mendelson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2013-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 2004 (UK), Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2003 (UK), Short-listed for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2003 (UK) |
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