Authors: Rosemary Friedman
To Live in Peace (23 page)
There was another imbroglio: Rachel and Josh. She couldn’t have them at each other’s throats, not speaking, when with their new families, cousins, they would have so much to offer each other. Life was too short. That their views about Israel were diametrically opposed, she understood. So what? It didn’t mean they couldn’t be in the same room, couldn’t speak to each other. She was a Zionist. It was a good thing for the Jewish people to return to the land of Israel, and bad for them to be scattered among the nations, for the family to be divided. There were ten, maybe fifteen million Jews in the world. Didn’t they deserve a country hardly a quarter the size of Syria? Didn’t the Arabs have enough countries? She would enlist the help of Maurice in resolving the delicate
situation, knowing that first she would have to work on the acceptance of her new, her dear husband, by Rachel. She wasn’t going to put up with any friction there either.
Waiting for the nurse to summon her to Rachel, Kitty saw herself arrived from the new world, an emissary really, for her family, for Israel. If Kitty Shelton had anything to do with it, both of them, God willing, given time, would live in peace. She looked at Maurice silhouetted against the window.
Everything was possible.
She was no longer alone.
Rosemary Friedman has published 21 novels – which have been widely translated and serialised by the BBC – three works of non-fiction and two children’s books. Her short stories have been syndicated worldwide and she has judged many literary prizes. She has written and commissioned screenplays and television scripts in the UK and the US. Her stage plays
Home Truths, Change of Heart
and
An Eligible Man
toured major UK venues following their London premières. She lives in London with her husband, psychiatrist and author Dennis Friedman.
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First published in 2001 by House of Stratus
This Ebook edition published by Arcadia Books 2013
Copyright © Rosemary Friedman 1987, 2001, 2013
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