Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson
She is sick of this - the sooty castles of the Banbury Road...She is sick of navyblue corduroy, Gothic arches, famous fig trees, shabby dons' wives, cellars, rivers, genius children, stuttering and gold leaf. It is your fault, she thinks, approaching her husband's college, as she glimpses her neighbour, an entirely silent botanist, attempting to untangle his own beard from a hawthorn tree. None of you are normal. Is normal. And I am. In a shabby, book-choked house in North Oxford live the Lux family. Victor, a dedicated professor, is desperate to be elected to give the prestigious annual Spenser lecture. Jean, his unassuming wife, is tentatively experimenting with the boundaries of her marital freedom. Eve, an over-achiever like her father, is suffering from a dangerous teenage angst - straining to achieve top marks in her exams and yet always in the shadow of her younger sister, Pheobe, who is perfect, it seems. Into this climate of repression and bitterness there comes an unworldly don, Victor's bete-noir, who shows interest in the vulnerable Eve. Meanwhile, Jean's best friend, Helen, has something she is yearning to tell: a confession that may alter everyone's constrainingly absurd life for ever. Daughters of Jerusalem is a captivating tale of hidden love and secret hatred, of the desire to belong and the need for escape, and of the fine line between wanting to be discovered and fearing the consequences when the delicious unknown becomes brutally exposed...
Charlotte Mendelson's novels include Daughters of Jerusalem, When We Were Bad, Almost English, The Exhibitionist and Wife. She has won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, has been longlisted for the 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330482776 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330482777 |
| Title | Daughters of Jerusalem |
| Author | Charlotte Mendelson |
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| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2003-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| 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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