Charlotte Mendelson
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When We Were Bad: A Novel
Charlotte Mendelson
Claudia Rubin is in her heyday. Wife, mother, rabbi, and sometime moral voice of the nation, it is she whom everyone wants to be with at her older sons glorious February wedding. Until Leo becomes a bolter and the heyday of the Rubin family begins to unravel. Leo’s calm, married, more mature sister, Frances, tries to hold the centre together, but the stresses force her to re-examine her own middle way and lead to a decision as shocking in its way as Leo’s has been. Meanwhile, Claudia’s husband Norman has, uncharacteristically, a secret to hide—a secret whose imminent unveiling he can do nothing about. A warm, poignant, and true portrayal of a London family in crisis, in love, in denial, and—ultimately—in luck.
