Disobedience

The Lessons

Author: Naomi Alderman

From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit’s father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behi….Read More

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