Winter in Jerusalem

by Blanche d'Alpuget

Thirty-eight-year-old Danielle Green returns to terrorist-wracked Israel, the land of her birth, and to her father, who has become a stranger

269 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

Blanche d’Alpuget has returned to fiction with the publication of ‘The Young Lion’, the first novel in a compelling new series about the House of Plantagenet, the mightiest royal dynasty in English history.

An acclaimed novelist, biographer and essayist Blanche has won numerous literary awards including the prestigious Australasian Prize for Commonwealth Literature in 1987. Her previous novels include Monkeys in the Dark (1980); Turtle Beach (1981) which won the Age book award in 1981; Winter in Jerusalem (1986) and White Eye (1993). Turtle Beach became a successful feature film in 1992 and all her novels have been translated into other languages. Her non-fiction books include Mediator: a biography of Sir Richard Kirby (1977) and Robert J Hawke: a biography (1982). Her essays include Lust (1993) and On Longing (2008).

Reviews

[Pulpkorn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Terrible.

[Elaine · Rating 2 out of 5]

I find the book long winding and tedious even though it was set in Jerusalem. Not a great read