When I Lived in Modern Times — Linda Grant

In the spring of 1946m Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible.
Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new strange country, she joins a kibbutz, then moves on to the teeming metropolis of Tel Aviv to find her own home and a group of friends as eccentric and disparate as the city itself. Ultimately, she falls in love with a man who is not what he seems when she becomes an unwitting spy in an underground army for a nation fighting to be born.
Told through the eyes of one of the most unforgettable heroines in contemporary fiction, When I Lived in Modern Times is one woman's story of discovery … of herself, of her heritage, and of the land that would become Israel.