Shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008.
May 2007 Book of the Month. After Leo walks out on his wedding to run off with the wife of his Rabbi we follow the unravelling lives of those affected by this event and the cracks that were already forming, in this seemingly perfect family, begin to break wide open. Trust, loyalties, love and friendship are all put to the test in a novel with a cracking pace. The interplay between the characters is absorbing and humorous and thoroughly believable, you won’t be able to put this one down.
| Primary Genre | Family Drama |
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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 son’s glorious February wedding. Until Leo becomes a bolter and the heyday of the Rubin family begins to unravel . . .
His calm, married, more mature sister, Frances, tries to hold the centre together but the stresses, for Frances, 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.
When We Were Bad features in the following genres: Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Books of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
When We Were Bad is available in Paperback, Hardback
When We Were Bad was written by Charlotte Mendelson and published by Pan Macmillan
When We Were Bad has 324 pages
