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Published: 21 June 2007

Sex as scene from suburbia

LESBIAN teenagers, one night stands and forbidden yearnings are lurking behind the white lace curtains of suburbia.
So claim two up-and-coming writers who have set their racy novels about adolescent identity crises and repressed sexuality in the suburbs where they grew up.
Naomi Alderman , whose debut novel Disobedience about the lesbian daughter of a Hendon rabbi won the Orange Award for New Writers, will join Sri Lankan-born author Niven Govinden to talk about “Sex and the Suburbs” at the Roebuck Pub in South End Green on Tuesday.
Mr Govinden’s second novel, Graffiti My Soul, is about a half-Jewish, half-Tamil boy growing up in Surrey, struggling to come to terms with his identity.
The event, organised by the Jewish Community Centre’s Lit Café, will be chaired by the fiction editor of the Daily Mail, Hephzibah Anderson.

*Sex and the Suburbs is Downstairs at The Roebuck, 15 Pond Street, NW3. Tickets £5.

SIMON WROE

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