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Daughters of Jerusalem
- Author
- Charlotte Mendelson
- Narrator
- Fleur de Wit
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 5 September 2024
- Run Time
- 9 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Romance, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
- Rating
- 2.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Beautifully written and bitingly funny, Charlotte Mendelson's prize-winning Daughters of Jerusalem is a gripping novel of hidden love and hate, of the desire to belong, and the need for escape.
Amidst the crumbling yellow stone of Oxford and its prestigious university, secrets are stirring within the Lux family home . . .
Jean, the constrained and guilt-ridden wife of an academic, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source.
Eve, Jean's intelligent eldest daughter, luxuriates in wounded murderous jealousy of her younger sister and is on the brink of snapping.
Raymond, the loathed rival of Jean's husband, begins to show interest in Eve.
And Helena, Jean's best friend, has a confession, the revelation of which may just alter everyone's lives forever.
'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
'Superb . . . funny, exciting, lyrical, poignant, redemptive' - Guardian
Critics Review
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This deliciously waspish — actually, hilarious — story of a destructive Oxford academic family has stayed with me longer than many did. Pure, very wicked joy
The Sunday Times
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A superb, hilarious farce of dysfunctional academic family life . . . Funny, exciting, lyrical, poignant, redemptive
The Guardian
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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
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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
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An engaging combination of campus satire and domestic drama . . . In Daughters of Jerusalem Mendelson has created a blue-stocking thriller
The Daily Telegraph
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Miss Marple meets Rosamond Lehmann . . . luscious prose and droll comedy . . . suffused with longing, studded with recherché words and clotted with gastronomic metaphors that make you feel that you should be reading on a chaise longe, stuffing yourself with violet creams
The Observer
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Savagely funny and hilariously cruel, it . . . convinces through the sheer power of the writing
The Sunday Times
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A delicious tale of intrigue and betrayal
The Big Issue
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Bold . . . engaging . . . an undoubted talent for comic observation
The Times
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A witty and absorbing work of fiction . . . wonderful . . . surprising and satisfying
The Times Literary Supplement
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Written with great sharpness and has thrilling detail
Julia Darling
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Details
- Author
- Charlotte Mendelson
- Narrator
- Fleur de Wit
- Duration
- 9 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 September 2024
- ISBN
- 9781035060870
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Romance, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
- Rating
- 2.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Beautifully written and bitingly funny, Charlotte Mendelson's prize-winning Daughters of Jerusalem is a gripping novel of hidden love and hate, of the desire to belong, and the need for escape.Amidst the crumbling yellow stone of Oxford and its prestigious university, secrets are stirring within the Lux family home . . .Jean, the constrained and guilt-ridden wife of an academic, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source.Eve, Jean's intelligent eldest daughter, luxuriates in wounded murderous jealousy of her younger sister and is on the brink of snapping.Raymond, the loathed rival of Jean's husband, begins to show interest in Eve.And Helena, Jean's best friend, has a confession, the revelation of which may just alter everyone's lives forever.'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'Superb . . . funny, exciting, lyrical, poignant, redemptive' - Guardian
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