Lead Review

• Book: Innocents
• Location: London
• Author: Francesca Segal

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 already won the 2012 Costa First Novel award and the 2012 National Jewish Book award for fiction. It’s another sort of coming of age too: the author is the daughter of Erich Segal, who wrote Love Story. Viv Groskop, Guardian

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