This month I’m recommending Keren David’s What We’re Scared Of.
I’d also like to flag up here The Hive
who recommended the book to me. This is a lovely on-line book shop that
supports independent bookshops. Their site is clean and uncluttered, they
deliver our print on demand books quickly and sell them at the RRP which Amazon
is not doing at the moment.
What We’re Scared Of starts
off with many of the marks of the chicklet-lit book. However, it becomes more
serious as non-identical twins Evie and Lottie confront their Jewishness.
Evie is a feisty stand-up comic and goes to the local comprehensive school. Lottie is tall and thin. She possibly has an eating disorder though
this is understated. She also suffers from asthma. She attends a fee-paying
school. As Evie gets to know the son of their mother’s friend and as Lottie gets
to know school friend Hannah better the girls begin to realise that their being
Jewish is significant. After their mother
protests openly on her radio show about antisemitism both girls are exposed to
danger. Will life ever be the same again?
Will they be able to live with their Jewishness?
What we’re Scared Of will really get you gunning for Evie and
Lottie. Keren David has created an engaging and enticing read here.
Get your copy via The Hive here
or Amazon here.
