Marina Lewycka has been carving herself a niche with light fiction about heavy subjects. Her first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, which brought the horrors of Stalinist Russia to Peterborough, wrought humour and pathos to critical acclaim. Her follow-up, Two Caravans, on immigration, fared less well, and this latest offering, where the ambition is even greater, might be where ...
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