MY SOVIET KITCHEN BY AMY SPURLING
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“Ivy is the lead character in a new novel by Holloway-based writer Amy Spurling, her alter ego who has travel led to Russia and it’s former satellite republics to complete a PhD on the life of the Colorado beetle.” Read the full review here
LIST OF INGREDIENTS:
Memory loss, homo sovieticus, and a wandering PhD student. This is Neo-chick lit. with a darker side, a vodka twist and a generous slice of post-Soviet living.
It’s 1994 and English PhD student, Ivy Stone, wakes up in a Moscow flat with a hangover and a vague sense of unease…
Unable to remember what she did last night or why there is a cryptic Post-It note on her fridge, she begins an emotional, alcohol-fuelled journey via an Uzbek wedding, an Estonian sauna, and a Georgian serenade. What dark past haunts her new Russian man? And will she ever find the author of the mystery Post-It note?
AND IF THATS NOT ENOUGH TO CONVINCE YOU!……
“Made me laugh A LOT. It is terrific fun, the Companion guide a bonus and the illustrations are a delight. Amy Spurling writes beautifully and wittily: a rare gift. Many laugh-out-louds and aphoristic truths.”
-Valerie Grove, Times columnist and biographer
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“My Soviet Kitchen is an enjoyable, lighthearted read combining a dash of Bridget Jones with a good glug of vodka.”
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“An hilarious read. The adventurous, inquisitive and ironic English character at its best, facing the tragic-comic life of the post-Soviet countries. Like a diary of Bridget Jones or Adrian Mole, only kept while living in Russia, Uzbekistan and Georgia. Don’t travel, just read it!” Hamid Ismailov, author and BBC Writer in Residence
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“Hilarious, informative, graphic and authentic…an engaging journey through the idiosyncrasies and idiocies of the former USSR. Impeccably researched.” Vitali Vitaliev, author of Life as a Literary Device.
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