Daughters of Jerusalem

<p><b>Beautifully written and bitingly funny, Charlotte Mendelson's prize-winning <i>Daughters of Jerusalem </i>is a gripping novel of hidden love and hate, of the desire to belong, and the need for escape.</b><br><br>Amidst the crumbling yellow stone of Oxford and its prestigious university, secrets are stirring within the Lux family home . . .<br><br>Jean, the constrained and guilt-ridden wife of an academic, is waiting for excitement &ndash; and it will come from an unexpected source.<br><br>Eve, Jean's intelligent eldest daughter, luxuriates in wounded murderous jealousy of her younger sister and is on the brink of snapping.<br><br>Raymond, the loathed rival of Jean's husband, begins to show interest in Eve.<br><br>And Helena, Jean's best friend, has a confession, the revelation of which may just alter everyone's lives forever.<br><br><b>'Brilliant