Vintage UK 2013
paperback
Fr. 15.80

Francesca Segal

The Innocents

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD: a witty and utterly enjoyable debut – a very modern love story which tells the age-old tale of love, temptation, confusion, commitment, and coming to terms with the choices we’ve made

‘It was more than possession, more than union, more than love. It was absolute confidence. It was certainty, and a promise of certainty always’

Adam and Rachel, childhood sweethearts, are getting married at last. Rachel is everything Adam has ever imagined in a wife and her parents adore him. A life of easy contentment awaits, at the heart of the community.

But then Rachel’s reckless American cousin returns to the family fold. Ellie represents everything that Adam has striven to avoid – and everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many.