Charlotte Mendelson

Aug 16, 2024 | thetimes.com | Charlotte Mendelson

Christmas Day, 1996, early evening, and the Mendelson family is, at last, at rest. My parents flop, drained and irritable, on the living-room sofa. My mother dislikes Christmas: too much cooking and compulsory fun, too many relatives. She can’t wait to take the tinsel off the Swiss cheese plant and have done with it. They’ve already decided that, next year, they’ll bloody well abandon their bickering daughters for somewhere hot. What’s the worst that could happen?

Aug 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Charlotte Mendelson |Frank Cottrell-Boyce |Donal Ryan |Dónal Ryan |Michael Rosen |Safiya Sinclair

Frank Cottrell-Boyce on The Railway Children by E. NesbitI really did not want to come of age. My primary school had a playing field with a lush, unmown border full of cow parsley, nettles and tall grasses. You could find newts and frogs and birds’ nests in there. Why would I want to be cast out of the Garden of Eden? Then, when the rest of my class was exiled to Big School, I was held back and got to do year 6 all over again. I could not believe my luck.

Feb 22, 2024 | panmacmillan.com | Sarah Waters |Marian Keyes |Meg Mason |Charlotte Mendelson

Charlotte MendelsonSynopsis'A master at family drama' – The TimesWife by Charlotte Mendelson is a beautifully observed and coruscating novel about the joys of passionate love and motherhood, about those left in its wake when passion curdles, and the choices that have to be made when romantic love is no longer enough.

Jul 2, 2023 | newspub.live | Charlotte Mendelson |Martin’s Press

The last time Christine Dawood saw her husband, Shahzada, and their son, Suleman, they were specks on the North Atlantic, bobbing on a floating platform about 400 miles from land. It was Father’s Day, June 18, and she watched from the support ship as they climbed into a 22-foot submersible craft called Titan. Divers closed them inside by tightening a ring of bolts as the craft rolled on the waves about 13,000 feet above the 111-year-old wreckage of the Titanic. Suleman, 19, carried a Rubik’s Cube.

Apr 28, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Joyce Carol Oates |Claire McMillan |Claire Mcmillan |Charlotte Mendelson |Gina Apostol

Joyce Carol Oates. Knopf, $29 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-53586-8Oates (Blonde) exploits the relentless and unforgiving natures of her characters in this captivating collection. The “sulky-shy” philosophy student at the center of the title story obsesses over her married professor, whose unexpected betrayal drives the plot into bonkers territory.