Disobedience

by Naomi Alderman

By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.

But when Ronit’s father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. When she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind.

(From publisher)

Naomi Alderman was born in 1974 and was brought up in the Orthodox Jewish community in Hendon, London, where she now lives. She is a graduate of the UEA creative writing course and has published short fiction in a number of anthologies. Disobedience is her first novel.
She won the Orange Award for New Writers in 2006 and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2007.