High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8743fd1c-0991-11e3-ad07-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2o8AO37ed Eve Harris’s debut novel is set in London’s Orthodox Jewish community. Chani, from a pious but impecunious family, is to be married to Baruch, a gangly scholar. Though Baruch is smitten, his mother fears that he is marrying beneath him, and is out to scupper the match. Meanwhile Rivka, a middle-aged rabbi’s wife, has come to feel suffocated by religious strictures. As she and her husband grow apart, she wistfully recalls their early years together in Jerusalem, when their faith blossomed alongside their romance. Her disaffection may suggest what lies in store for Chani. But if Harris evokes the community’s insular nature, she also suggests the sense of comfort and belonging that it confers, offering a sympathetic window on a way of life little glimpsed in contemporary fiction.

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