Book Club

Our next meeting will be Sunday, May 23  at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom!

We will be discussing Linda Grant’s When I Lived in Modern Times.

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SYNOPSIS

In the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible.

Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new, strange country, she joins a kibbutz, then moves on to the teeming metropolis of Tel Aviv, to find her own home and a group of friends as eccentric and disparate as the city itself. She falls in love with a man who is not what he seems when she becomes an unwitting spy for a nation fighting to be born.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Linda Grant was born in Liverpool, England in 1951, and read English at the University of York.

Her first novel, The Cast Iron Shore (1996), won the David Higham Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her second, When I Lived in Modern Times (2000), set in Palestine immediately after the Second World War, won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. Her novel, Still Here (2002), set in Liverpool, tells the story of a middle-aged English woman and her relationship with an American architect.Her non-fiction includes Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution (1993) and Remind Me Who I Am, Again (1998), an account of her mother’s dementia, which won the MIND Book of the Year/Allen Lane Award. The People on the Street: A Writer’s View of Israel (2006), was winner of the 2006 Lettre Ulysses Award; and The Clothes on Their Backs (2008) was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The Thoughful Dresser (2009) was followed by We Had It So Good (2011) and Upstairs at the Party (2014), her most recent novel.

Linda Grant lives in North London.