Amazon Editorial Review:
'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.' Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth. But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget...

Purchased in the general store in Tharwa, ACT.

A funny read. It took a few pages to warm to it though. The father in this story lives in his own little world. He was thoroughly frustrating for his daughters. I liked the writing. It gave the feeling of English spoken by those not born to it. And the observations of human nature were so true.

Released at the Bookcrossing meet at Kingston Foreshores, ACT. Enjoy.

Picked up from Goldenwattle at Kingston ACT and released in the Li'l Library at Boab Cottage Queanbeyan.

In the Li'l Free Library

It disappeared from the Li'l Free libraray and then turned up again without being journalled, so I decided to read it.
I thought it was great, it gave me a lot of laughs. Also interesting to read about the Ukrainian war experences - and of course - tractors.