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From the author of ''The Power'', winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017, this is an insightful and witty novel that follows a woman as she returns to the community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.
But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, whom she experimented sexually with as a teenager, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind, especially as Esti is now married to her father's chosen successor, Dovid.
This book has now been made into a film starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, and directed by Sebastián Lelio, whose film ''A Fantastic Woman'' won the 2018 Academy award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.
Paperback, 288 Pages, Orig. Published 2007, This Edition Publ. April 2018
Author: Naomi Alderman
Reviews:
Funny, tender and insightful (Guardian)
A wonderful novel . . . rich and fresh and fascinating (Sunday Times)