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Daughters of Jerusalem

Daughters of Jerusalem

Author(s): Charlotte Mendelson

Location(s): Oxford

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Behind a crumbling facade of seeming normality, secrets begin to stir within the Lux family home. Jean Lux, constrained academic wife and guilty mother, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source. Meanwhile Eve, her intelligent elder daughter, luxuriates in wounded jealousy, until her loathing for her only sister verges on the murderous. Into this climate of static repression and bitterness enters Raymond Snow, the deadly rival of Jean’s husband, who begins to show interest in the vulnerable Eve. Meanwhile, Jean’s best friend, Helena, has something she is yearning to tell: a confession that may alter everyone’s life forever.

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The setting is superbly described: academic life in Oxford with all its anachronisms, traditions and old world charm; yet the academic characters simply cannot vocalise their feelings in real life – town and gown...

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