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Charlotte Mendelson

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Charlotte Mendelson (born 1972) is a British novelist and editor. Her maternal grandparents were, in her words, "Hungarian-speaking-Czech, Ruthenian for about 10 minutes, Carpathian mountain-y, impossible to describe", who left Prague in 1939.
When she was two, she moved with her parents and her baby sister to a house in a cobbled passage next to St John's College, Oxford, where her father taught public international law.

After the King's School, Canterbury,she studied Ancient and Modern History at the University of Oxford, even though she knows now, with great regret, that what would have suited her best was English literature at somewhere like Leeds.

She says she became a lesbian suddenly. "It was boyfriends up to 22 or 23. Not a whiff of le ...more

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Average rating: 3.14 · 9,134 ratings · 1,377 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault, Charlotte Mendelson (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 6,455 ratings — published 1956 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Exhibitionist 3.03 avg rating — 4,630 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault, Charlotte Mendelson (Introduction) 4.06 avg rating — 2,604 ratings — published 1966 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Almost English 2.92 avg rating — 1,643 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When We Were Bad 3.25 avg rating — 1,068 ratings — published 2007 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wife 3.26 avg rating — 579 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daughters of Jerusalem 3.40 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rhapsody In Green 3.91 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wife 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accrochages by Charlotte Mendelson, Caroline Bouet (translator) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“But what she had always imagined were the two basic ingredients of happy adulthood, intellectual companionship and thrilling sex, are missing too.”
― Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad

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“He glances again at the door. Would a taste of the outside world be so unwise?”
― Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad

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“Books made me; they are my favourite inanimate object, my salvation and, probably, my doom.”
― Charlotte Mendelson, Rhapsody in Green: A Writer, an Obsession, a Laughably Small Excuse for a Vegetable Garden: A novelist, an obsession, a laughably small excuse for a vegetable garden

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April BoTM Nominations ~ Flowers on Cover ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 books move onto final round

Shark Heart

by Emily Habeck

8 votes, 29.6%

Only the Beautiful

by Susan Meissner

5 votes, 18.5%

Weyward

by Emilia Hart

4 votes, 14.8%

Before You Knew My Name

by Jacqueline Bublitz

2 votes, 7.4%

Daffodils

by Alex Martin

2 votes, 7.4%

Fair Rosaline

by Natasha Solomons

1 vote, 3.7%

Happily Married

by Victoria Jenkins

1 vote, 3.7%

He Said He Would Be Late

by Justine Sullivan

1 vote, 3.7%

Boy, Snow, Bird

by Helen Oyeyemi

1 vote, 3.7%

The Exhibitionist

by Charlotte Mendelson

1 vote, 3.7%

Honeybees and Distant Thunder

by Riku Onda

1 vote, 3.7%

The Last Kind Words

by Tom Piccirilli

0 votes, 0.0%

Salt Houses

by Hala Alyan

0 votes, 0.0%

27 total votes

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