Different Than All Other Nights
Different Than All Other Nights
Johanna SchreiberA witty, heart-breaking and irreverent book that traces the friendship of three young women, as they navigate the intricate web of female friendship, life-altering love and Judaism in the 21st century.
It’s the summer of 1997, and at a summer camp just outside of Stockholm the lives of three girl’s are about to be changed forever. We meet Hanna, who wears expensive brands as a shield, nails chewed to the quick and had the bat mitzvah that all of Stockholm is still reeling from. There’s also wild-child Josephine, whose unmissable beauty enthrals and enraptures, and who is just beginning to unravel her Jewish ancestry. And Dahlia, who always finds herself in the middle, stuck between her friends as well as her Swedish-Israeli parents. When their whirlwind friendship turns sour by the end of camp, they think they’ll never see each other again. But life has other plans in store.
Spanning countries and decades, Different Than All Other Nights is a dark yet funny novel about being hit on at a holocaust museum, crying over the chicken soup meant to impress your mother-in-law, breaking fast in style after Yom Kippur, and handling not only yours, but previous generations’ grief. About wanting to give your children the life you never got, navigating how and when to break or keep traditions, and the force of mind-blowing sex.
Johanna Schreiber has previously reached great success as both a genre author for adults and young adults, but this time we get to see her in an entirely new light. In a novel that is Coco Mellor’s Blue Sisters meets Netflix sensation Nobody Wants This, Schreiber has written an upmarket sensation that will both sweep you off your feet and leave you crying. Through the lives of the three women, Schreiber tells the story of the modern Swedish-Jewish experience, deftly portraying the intricate web that holds friendships together, and the complicated truths that threaten to throw them apart.
‘Johanna’s big heart and sense of fun are there in all her stories, along with high spirits and sparkling humour. Her books are a joy to indulge in – perfect escapism but with real life dilemmas we can all relate to. A born storyteller with a twinkle in her eye.’ Veronica Henry, author of How to Find Love in a Bookshop
