Daunt Books

In this beautifully executed and slyly funny re-casting of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, debut novelist Francesca Segal substitutes for 1870s New York a Jewish community in modern-day north-west London. Newly engaged Adam Newman is the prize catch of his small Jewish suburb. He has been dating Rachel Gilbert since they were both sixteen and now they are finally to marry. But when Adam meets Rachel’s beautiful, vulnerable and fiercely independent cousin Ellie Schneider, she unsettles him more than he’d care to admit.

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