Dimensions
153 x 234 x 28mm
Jacob's Folly tells the story of three people linked in the most unexpected of ways. Masha is a teenager born into an orthodox Jewish family, who longs to escape the claustrophobia of her home life; Leslie is a middle aged family man who also finds himself pushing against the constraints of all his responsibilities; while Jacob - well, Jacob is an eighteenth century man who finds himself reborn as a fly in the twenty-first century.
From this highly quirky premise, Rebecca Miller has conjured a novel full of warmth and insight, that offers a wonderful portrait of the intricacies of family life, and of the extent to which we are and are not in control of our own destinies. It marks Rebecca Miller as one of our most distinctive and beguiling novelists.
