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WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION8216An extraordinary read. Nothing short of amazing. A rare treat. All too to gulp down in one greedy sitting.8217Daily Express8216Two Years after my mother died my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eightyfour and she was thirtysix. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade churning up the murky water bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughedoff memories giving the family ghosts kick up the backside.8217Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their gr ngineer father from voluptuous golddigger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boilinthebag cuisine she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western Wealth.But the sisters8217 campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets uncovers fifty years of Europe8217s darkest history and sends them back to roots they8217d much rather forget.8216Hugely enjoyable. Yields a golden harvest of family truths8217 Daily Telegraph8216Thoughtprovoking uproariously funny a comic feast. A riotous oil painting of senility lust and greed8217 Economist8216Delightful funny touching8217 Spectator Two years after my mother died my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eightyfour and she was thirtysix. She exploded into our l «