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|title=The Innocents

|sort=Innocents, The

|publisher=Chatto & Windus

|date=May 2012

|website=http://www.francescasegal.com/Francescas_Website/Home/Home.html

|summary=Modern adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920s novel ''The Age of Innocence'' - but best not to draw too many direct comparisons. Modern day, Jewish, North London elite in bad girl threatens to disrupt childhood romance drama while everyone around eats Jewish snacks.

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Francesca Segal's debut novel, ''The Innocents'' is set in upper class, Jewish, North London. Adam is about to marry his childhood sweetheart, Rachel, and is working as a lawyer in her father's business. Into this romantic idyl though comes Ellie, Rachel's wayward cousin who has been forced to flee the US following an appearance in an 'art house' movie of dubious repute and, it turns out, further scandal. Ellie is everything that Rachel is not; a model, worldly, sexy and tempting. As Adam gets drawn into wanting to 'rescue' her and look after her, his whole future with Rachel is thrown into doubt and the story becomes a will they, won't they get together narrative.