This is a third novel by Charlotte Mendelson, whose second, Daughters of Jerusalem, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her novels are perfectly balanced observations of human nature captured in all its hideous glories, usually in family settings. As intelligent as it is funny, her writing is brilliant at bringing out the awkwardness of the transition from family life to independent adult existence (if, indeed, any of us really achieve it).
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from Sunday Observer by Viv Groskop