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Two feuding sisters join forces against their aged father's glamorous, gold-digging new girlfriend in Marina Lewycka’s hilarious debut novel
Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must set aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré 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 50 years of Europe’s darkest history and sends them back to roots they’d much rather forget…
Marina Lewycka
About the Author
British-Ukrainian author Marina Lewycka was born in 1946 in a British-run refugee camp in Kiel, Germany to Ukrainian parents, and moved to England with her family when she was a year old