Julia Franck has always drawn on her own life story to tell her stories, but reading her autobiographical novel, Worlds Apart, it is now even clearer to me how much her fiction ref
This is a glorious book centred on two Russian-speaking families in Ukraine during the Soviet era. At its heart is the complex love-hate relationships between mothers and daughters
I can’t help but be happy. Darius Kopp stood in the middle of the garden on the patch of grass between the flowerbed and the olive trees, and looked up at the volcano. It was so
