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Sometimes Hannah wondered how strong Eric’s faith was. The unseen world was as real to her as the skin on her hands. Yosef had been the same way. Up in that attic she could see it all play out in the drift of his eyes, the wonder and terror of existence. Elsie too, she’d seen things. But Eric, for all his learning, was not a man with wonder in his eyes.

‘Follow your own argument, Kate. You believe in subconscious inherited racism. But you also believe that after 3,000 years of antisemitism, none of that slime has stuck to the anti-Zionists, whose sole political aim is to kick us out of yet another country. You think those rowdy kids alone out of all humanity are free of unconscious bias, perfectly rational in their convictions.’