Synopsis
This tender, deeply funny novel is about an eccentric elderly Ukranian widower in England and the struggles of his two feuding daughters to thwart the voluptuous young gold digger from the old country, who sweeps him off his feet.

From the Inside Flap
"Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a
glamorous blonde Ukranian 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 sludge of sloughed-off
memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside."



Brian (Germany) (2008/07/01):
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Prize