When I lived in modern times
By: Linda Grant
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781407485843
Subjects: Jews; Fiction
Description: It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, 20 years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a new life in a brand new country. In the glittering, cosmopolitan, Bauhaus city of Tel Aviv, anything seems possible - the new self, new Jew, new woman are all feasible. Evelyn, adept at disguises, reinvents herself as the bleached blonde Priscilla Jones. Immersed in a world of passionate idealism, she finds love, and with Johnny, her lover, finds herself at the heart of a very dangerous game.
Notes: Originally published: London: Granta, 2000.