When I lived in Modern Times

Authors:
Linda Grant

Description:
What it says on the cover: 
It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, 20 years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a new life in a brand new country.

In the glittering, cosmopolitan, Bauhaus city of Tel Aviv, anything seems possible - the new self, new Jew, new woman are all feasible. Evelyn, adept at disguises, reinvents herself. Immersed in a world of passionate idealism, she falls in love, and withJohnny, her lover, finds herself at the heart of a very dangerous game.

First line: When I look back I see myself at twenty.