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From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women\'s Prize for Fiction 2017 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

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