The Innocents Av Francesca Segal

<p><b>WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012</b><br><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013</b><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2013</b><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE 2013</b><br><br><br><br><i>What if everything you’d ever wanted was no longer enough?</i><br><br>Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year.<br><br>But then Rachel’s cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. Beautiful, reckless and troubled, Ellie represents everything that Adam has tried all his life to avoid – and everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many.<br><br>''Wonderful...witty…an astonishingly accomplished debut which will draw comparisons between Segal and Zadie Smith and Monica Ali'' <i>Stylist</i></p>