Recent Reviews & Interviews:

'Charlotte Mendelson is one of the most accomplished novelists in the UK today. She writes about the pleasures and the perils of love, desire and family life with devastating precision and wit'

Sarah Waters ( More… )

A Room of One's Own

Charlotte writing about the 'startlingly ugly' room in which she writes in the Guardian - click here

'When We Were Bad' combines writing to linger over, a plot to race through and characters to care about...investigates their individual crises and epiphanies with cleverness and charm'
Guardian

'Charlotte Mendelson's When We Were Bad is a perferct romantic comedy, elegantly written and wonderfully readable, in which the likeable Rubins siblings struggle for emotional freedom from their family's powerful embrace'
Helen Simpson, New Statesman

Summer Taste:

Charlotte described a profoundly unromantic teenage trip to Florence as part of the Summer Taste series on BBC Radio 4.

blogGing:

A video blog about where When We Were Bad is set, filmed for the Guardian: click here

And here are two blogs Charlotte wrote about it, for the Picador website and the Guardian

And a selection of recent paperback reviews:

'Wryly humorous…we envy, despise and ultimately care deeply for this extravagantly dysfunctional family’ Best Summer Reads, Sunday Times

'Both extremely funny and acutely painful...Mendelson, whose writing glitters with stylistic panache and moral force, masterfully evokes the complex web of emotions that yokes her well-realised characters together'
Sunday Telegraph

'The Rubins, and their assorted foibles, flaws and neuroses, are at once unique and utterly recognisable...her extraordinary eye for human behaviour will endear readers to each and every Rubin...Combining frankness with a sharp and intelligent humour, When We Were Bad is an irresistible treat'
Guardian

'Wickedly funny and poignant...beautifully observed and painfully authentic. It confirms Mendelson, author of the dazzling Daughters of Jerusalem, as one of our most versatile and original young authors'
Daily Mail

'Charlotte Mendelson attracted much praise for her wickedly sharp second novel, Daughters of Jerusalem, but compared with this it seems almost demure. When We Were Bad is relentlessly good: crammed with brilliant, skewering details...it is a mark of [Mendelson's] skill that these never impede the plot; as the wheels fall off the Rubin wagon, she maintains both pace and intrigue admirably'
Observer

For more reviews of When We Were Bad, please click here