Adam is quite happy to have this secure environment, especially since he lost his father when he was 8 years old and Rachel's father, who is also his boss, has been like a father figure for him. You just have to look at the older generation. The community in which Adam and Rachel spends their time is a life of religious holidays and family gatherings, helping each other, interfering in each others life it seems to be a very traditional life where you already know as a young man and woman how your life will be. Her life has been rather wild (photo model, porn star, mistress etc) in comparison to the family and friends surrounding Adam and Rachel. In comes Rachel's cousin Ellie from New York where she moved with her father as a teenager. We follow Adam who is around 30 and Rachel, his girlfriend since 16 years and soon to be wife. It is about a Jewish community in the London area. The book is very well written and it is one of these books that keeps you in the story even after you have finished it. In 2012 Francesca Segal won the 'First Novel Award' with 'The Innocents'. I still remember the 2006 winner Stef Penney and 'The Tenderness of Wolves' as one of my favourite books. The February challenge is to read a Literary Award winner. This is a book I read for the Challenge '2014 Monthly Motif Challenge'.
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