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description: Behind a crumbling facade of seeming normality secrets begin to stir within the Lux family home. Jean Lux constrained academic wife and guilty mother is waiting for excitement  and it will come from an unexpected source. Meanwhile Eve her intelligent elder daughter luxuriates in wounded jealousy until her loathing for her only sister verges on the murderous.Into this climate of static repression and bitterness enters Raymond Snow the deadly rival of Jeans husband who begins to show interest in the vulnerable Eve. Meanwhile Jeans best friend Helena has something she is yearning to tell: a confession that may alter everyones life forever.Beautifully written and very funny Daughters of Jerusalem is a gripping tale of hidden love and hate of the desire to belong and the need for escape.
language: English
title: Daughters of Jerusalem
publisher: Picador