Into Egypt

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Into Egypt is a novel about forbidden territory; about the physical borders between nations, the boundaries between individuals, the frontiers of the divided self. The experience is Jo Catterall's; as she moves from her safe East Anglian childhood towards Israel in a state of war, she explores her own relationship to an external world whose realities are not hers. She becomes involved with first the kibbutznik Gilbert, then Zevi, a professor in Jerusalem, mistaking each time the man for the ideal; only when her nihilistic lover, Francis, kills himself, does she come to see that her own experience of life is as valid as anybody else's, neither more nor less so. Through Jo's development, as she comes into contact with people ever more unlike herself, Rosalind Brackenbury also searches out the changing relationship of the story to the event, the place to the people imagined - and the novelist to the people observed, who cannot make the simple choice to go home.