Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer’ Time OutĪ delightful first novel. ‘It’s rare to find a first novel that gets so much right. a very rich mixture indeed’ Daily Express ‘Captures the peculiar flavour of Eastern European immigrant life. yields a golden harvest of family truths’ Daily Telegraph With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she outmanoeuvres the sisters at every turn.īut their campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of European and Ukrainian history, and sends them back to roots they’d much rather forget. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their widowed, tractor-obsessed Ukrainian father from the voluptuous, wealth-obsessed Valentina. “As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.” THE AWARD-WINNING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERĪ hilarious, lively, moving and compassionate debut about one Ukrainian-British family’s tumultuous relationship and the history they never knew.
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