The Innocents by Francesca Segal
‘It was more than possession, more than union, more than love. It was absolute confidence. It was certainty, and a promise of certainty always’ Adam and Rachel, childhood sweethearts, are getting married at last. Rachel is everything Adam has ever imagined in a wife and her parents adore him. A life of easy contentment awaits, at the heart of the community. But then Rachel’s reckless American cousin returns to the family fold. Ellie represents everything that Adam has striven to avoid – and everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many.
Stylish, witty, wonderfully moreish -- AD. Miller
The Innocents is an exuberant, sensitive, witty novel, elegantly written, partly a study of universal dramas of love, marriage and fear, partly a very modern, sassy London story, partly a Jewish novel. I found it irresistible * Simon Sebag Montefiore *
A moving, funny, richly drawn story of a young man's attempts to find out who he wants to be when there are so many others who know best. Full of real pleasures and unexpected wisdom, this book sweeps you along * Esther Freud *
A beautiful, bittersweet novel -- Gin Phillips
Written with wisdom and deliciously subtle wit, in the tradition of Jane Austen and Nancy Mitford. Francesca Segal has a remarkable ability to bring characters vividly to life who are at once warm, funny, complex, and utterly recognizable. This is a wonderfully readable novel: elegant, accomplished and romantic * Andre Aciman *
The Innocents is an exuberant, sensitive, witty novel, elegantly written, partly a study of universal dramas of love, marriage and fear, partly a very modern, sassy London story, partly a Jewish novel. I found it irresistible * Simon Sebag Montefiore *
A moving, funny, richly drawn story of a young man's attempts to find out who he wants to be when there are so many others who know best. Full of real pleasures and unexpected wisdom, this book sweeps you along * Esther Freud *
A beautiful, bittersweet novel -- Gin Phillips
Written with wisdom and deliciously subtle wit, in the tradition of Jane Austen and Nancy Mitford. Francesca Segal has a remarkable ability to bring characters vividly to life who are at once warm, funny, complex, and utterly recognizable. This is a wonderfully readable novel: elegant, accomplished and romantic * Andre Aciman *
The daughter of a novelist and an editor, Francesca Segal was born in London in 1980. Brought up in the UK and America, she studied at Oxford and Harvard universities before becoming a journalist and critic. Her work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, FT Magazine and the JC, amongst others. For three years she wrote the Debut Fiction Column in the Observer and she has been a Features Writer at Tatler.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701186999 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701186992 |
| Title | The Innocents |
| Author | Francesca Segal |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of Costa First Novel Award 2013 (UK), Winner of Betty Trask Award 2013 (UK), Long-listed for Womens Prize for Fiction 2013 (UK) |
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