When We Were Bad

Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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 ...This work presents a warm poignant and true portrayal of a London family in crisis in love in denial and - ultimately - in luck.