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. 'Absolutely spellbinding, so funny, so moving, so totally believable'- Jacqueline Wilson. Entdecke Charlotte Mendelson - SIGNIERT - When We Were Bad - 1./1. By all outward appearances, the Rubins are the perfect family: brilliant, successful, enviably close-knit. Brilliant, touching and true'- Naomi Alderman, Financial Times. When we were bad by Charlotte Mendelson, August 13, 2007, Houghton Mifflin edition, Hardcover in English When We Were Bad (Augedition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. A beautifully observed literary comedy as well as a painfully accurate description of one big old family mess.'-Observer 'Fast-paced and engaging. When we were bad by Charlotte Mendelson, August 13, 2007, Houghton Mifflin edition, Hardcover in English. 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.

Until Leo becomes a bolter and the heyday of the Rubin family begins to unravel.

Wife, mother, rabbi and sometime moral voice of the nation, everyone wants to be with her at her older son's glorious February wedding. The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness.Claudia Rubin is in her heyday.

When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson