Pan Macmillan
A beautifully observed literary comedy as well as a painfully accurate description of one big old family mess’ Observer ‘Fast-paced and engaging. Brilliant, touching and true’ Naomi Alderman, Financial Times ‘Absolutely spellbinding, so funny, so moving, so totally believable’ Jacqueline Wilson ‘Intelligent and witty. The Rubin family may be a singular one but the delights and the difficulties its members have with sex and spirituality, food and domesticity, expectation and achievement, will have a universal appeal’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Funny and emotionally true, this is a comedy with the warmest of hearts and the most deliciously subversive of agendas’ Book of the Month, Marie Claire When We Were Bad is a warm, poignant and true portrayal of a London family in crisis, in love, in denial and – ultimately – in luck.
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