She lives in London with her partner, journalist and novelist Joanna Briscoe, and their two children. It’s a smart, funny and poignant story about secrets and suppressed passions – including lesbian desire – that slowly unravel a seemingly happy Jewish family.Īt 35, Mendelson has earned comparisons to Zadie Smith and has received the U.K.’s two leading prizes for young literary talent, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award for her novel Daughters of Jerusalem (2003). tour to promote her latest novel, When We Were Bad. As British readers already know, we can now add Charlotte Mendelson to that list.
They are among the few lesbians who have pulled off the trifecta of writing novels that appeal to lesbians, mainstream audiences and critics alike.
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