When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
'The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness'. Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife, mother, rabbi and sometime moral voice of the nation, everyone wants to be with her at her older son's glorious February wedding. Until Leo becomes a bolter and the heyday of the Rubin family begins to unravel...'As intelligent as it is funny. A beautifully observed literary comedy as well as a painfully accurate description of one big old family mess' - "Observer".'Fast-paced and engaging. Brilliant, touching and true' - Naomi Alderman, "Financial Times". 'Absolutely spellbinding, so funny, so moving, so totally believable' - Jacqueline Wilson. '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' - "Sunday Telegraph". 'Funny and emotionally true, this is a comedy with the warmest of hearts and the most deliciously subversive of agendas' - Book of the Month, Marie Claire. "When We Were Bad" is a warm, poignant and true portrayal of a London family in crisis, in love, in denial and - ultimately - in luck.
Charlotte Mendelson's novels include Daughters of Jerusalem, When We Were Bad, Almost English, and The Exhibitionist. She has won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, has been longlisted for the Man Book, 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 | 9780330449298 |
| ISBN 10 | 033044929X |
| Title | When We Were Bad |
| Author | Charlotte Mendelson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2007-05-04 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008 (UK) |
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