This title is presented with an introduction by Marina Lewycka. Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both willful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss, Tom's self-righteous stubbornness and Maggie's emotional intens[...]
Lentils, free love, radical politics and family truths..."Various Pets Alive and Dead" is the wonderfully funny fourth novel from Marina Lewycka, author of the bestselling "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love[...]
Putting aside a lifetime of rivalry when they learn that their recently widowed father is planning to remarry a gold-digging woman, sisters Vera and Nadezhda find themselves outmaneuvered by their father's scheming fiance, a situation that is compromised by a hurricane, family secrets, and their fat[...]
A farmer's indiscretions force a band of illegal migrant workers from different backgrounds to flee their strawberry fields and embark on a haphazard journey across England in search of better lives, an effort marked by an unlikely love affair. Reprint.[...]
"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel. 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a[...]
"We Are All Made of Glue" is the wickedly funny third novel from bestselling author Marina Lewycka. Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her. Her son's obsessed with the End of the World. And now her elderly neighbour Mrs Shapiro has decided they are related. Or so the hospi[...]
Marina Lewycka explores the clash of the generations in one extremely colourful family in her comic novel "Various Pets Alive and Dead".
For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn't. What they did do was give the[...]
Kun hiljattain leskeksi jäänyt Nikolai ilmoittaa aikeestaan mennä uusiin naimisiin, hänen tyttärensä Vera ja Nadezda tajuavat,että heidän pitää panna ikuiset kiistansa syrjään ja liittoutua palastaakseen isänsä.Uusi morsian on botticellilaisen uhkea peroksidiblondi Ukrainasta, ja häne[...]
Meidät kaikki on tehty liimasta jatkaa brittiläisen Marina Lewyckan viisaiden ja humorististen romaanien sarjaa. Georgie Sinclairin aviomies on jättänyt hänet ja heidän poikansa on pahimmassa murkkuiässä. Kun vielä Georgien naapuri, iäkäs juutalainen maahanmuuttaja, rouva Shapiro alkaa tu[...]