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Innocents

Innocents

Author(s): Francesca Segal

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweetheartswhose lives and families have been intertwined for years: theirs is set to be the wedding of the year.

But then Rachel’s cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. Beautiful, reckless and troubled, Ellie represents everything that Adam has tried all his life 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.

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NORTH LONDON – Part ambiguous morality tale, part guidebook on north London Jewish community culture, this is a hugely enjoyable first novel. With a nod to Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, it has...

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