When I Lived In Modern Times - Linda Grant (Paperback) 06-01-2011 Winner of Orange Prize for Fiction and Orange Prize. Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Fiction and Orange Prize for Fiction.

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It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a new l ife 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. Show more