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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-08-05 Pages: 350 Language: English Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd 19 year-old Chani lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London She has never had physical contact with a man. but. is bound to marry a stranger The rabbis wife teaches her what it means to be a Jewish wife. but Rivka has her own questions to answer Soon buried secrets. fear and sexual desire bubble to the surface in a story of liberation and choice..; not to mention what happens on the wedding night -
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Eve Harris was born to Israeli-Polish parents in Chiswick, West London, in 1973. She taught for 12 years at inner-city comprehensives and independent schools in London and also in Tel Aviv, after moving to Israel in 1999. She returned to London in 2002 to resume teaching at an all girls' Catholic convent school. 'After the Wedding' was inspired by her final year of teaching at an all girls' ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in North West London. Eve lives in London with her husband, Jules, and their daughter Rosie.
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The bride stood like a pillar of salt, rigid under layers of itchy petticoats. Sweat dripped down the hollow of her back and collected in pools under her arms staining the ivory silk. She edged closer to The Bedeken Room door, one ear pressed up against it.
She heard the men singing. Their shouts of lai-lai-lai!’ rolled down the dusty synagogue corridor. They were coming for her. This was it. This was her day. The day her real life started. She was nineteen and had never held a boy’s hand. The only man to touch her had been her father and his physical affection had dwindled since her body had curved and ripened.
"Sit down, Chani-leh, show a little modesty. Come, the Kallah does not stand by the door. Sit, sit!’
Her mother’s face had turned grey. The wrinkles gleamed as the make-up slid towards her collar. The plucked brows gave her a look of permanent surprise. Her mouth was compressed into a frosty pink line. Mrs Kaufman sagged under the weight of her mousy wig. Beneath, her hair was grey and wispy. An old woman at forty-five: tired. Chani was her fifth daughter, the fifth to stand in a Bedeken Room, the fifth to wear the dress. Nor would she be the last. Like
Babushka dolls, three younger daughters had emerged after her.
Chani remained at her post. Shouldn’t they be here by now?’
They’ll be here soon enough. You should be davening for all your single friends. Not everyone’s as lucky as you are today, Baruch HaShem.’
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- PublisherSandstone Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1908737433
- ISBN 13 9781908737434
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number6
- Number of pages350
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