The Believers

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'One of the outstanding novels of the year' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage.Joel's children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling secret themselves, but for the meantime, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas. Rosa, a disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a new-found attachment to Orthodox Judaism. Karla, an unhappily married social worker, is falling in love with an unlikely suitor at the hospital where she works.Adopted brother Lenny is back on drugs again. In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what - if anything - they still believe in. 'Funny, moving, very, very true. A brilliant, brilliant book' Daily Mail 'One of only two British novelists whose work you wouldn't want to miss' David Hare, Guardian, Books of the Year 'A dark beautiful drama. Heller has got the stuff we look for in our best novelists- the sentences, the constant drift towards truth' Joseph O'Neill, Guardian, Books of the Year 'Hilarious...... a brilliant analysis of what makes families tick' Sunday Express

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'Astonishingly well-observed and stunningly written, a subtle, funny family farce!in its thundering confidence,The Believers is the work of a writer at the top of her game' Guardian 'One of the outstanding novels of the year!funny and elegant' - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'Profoundly satisfying. No other novel would readily stand in its stead!pulses with thematic and intellectual content!Heller's prose is clean, warm and smart' - Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph

Author Bio

Zo Heller was born in London. She was educated at Oxford University and Columbia University in New York. Her first novel, Everything You Know, was published by Viking in 1999, her second, Notes on a Scandal (also published by Viking) was recently made into a feature film starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. Zo Heller writes a column for the Daily Telegraph and was Columnist of the Year for 2002. She lives in New York.