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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019

‘Something terrible is happening here. Something terrible has already happened.’

Kiev 1992. Rachel, a troubled young English mother, joins her journalist husband on his first foreign posting in the city. Terrified of the apartment's balcony, she develops obsessive rituals to keep their baby safe. Her difficulties expose her to a disturbing endgame between the elderly caretaker and a local racketeer who sends a gift that surely comes with a price. Rachel is isolated yet culpable with her secrets and estrangements. As consequences bear down she seeks out Zoya, her husband's fixer, and the boy from upstairs who watches them all.

Home is uncertain, betrayal is everywhere, but in the end there are many ways to be a mother.

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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsLonglisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019‘Something terrible is happening here. Something... Read more

    Publisher: Salt Publishing
    Publication Date: 15/04/2019
    ISBN13: 9781784631741, 978-1784631741
    ISBN10: 1784631744

    Number of Pages: 304

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

    Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019

    ‘Something terrible is happening here. Something terrible has already happened.’

    Kiev 1992. Rachel, a troubled young English mother, joins her journalist husband on his first foreign posting in the city. Terrified of the apartment's balcony, she develops obsessive rituals to keep their baby safe. Her difficulties expose her to a disturbing endgame between the elderly caretaker and a local racketeer who sends a gift that surely comes with a price. Rachel is isolated yet culpable with her secrets and estrangements. As consequences bear down she seeks out Zoya, her husband's fixer, and the boy from upstairs who watches them all.

    Home is uncertain, betrayal is everywhere, but in the end there are many ways to be a mother.

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