A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Registered by dododumpling of St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on 6/19/2008
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by dododumpling from St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 19, 2008
One of the haul bought this morning when lindyb28 and I visited the charity shops of St Neots!
Journal Entry 2 by dododumpling from St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Saturday, August 30, 2008
'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...
I thoroughly enjoyed this - it's funny and the characters are sympathetic. I'll be looking out for her other novels.
I thoroughly enjoyed this - it's funny and the characters are sympathetic. I'll be looking out for her other novels.
Journal Entry 3 by dododumpling at St Mary's church, Eaton Socon in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Thursday, January 8, 2009
