Longlisted for The Women\'s Prize for Fiction 2019 and The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019.
Alina turns to her aunt for help - the wife of a communist leader and a secret practitioner of the old folk ways..
When Alina\'s brother-in-law defects to the West, her and her husband\'s careers come grinding to a halt. 1970s communist Romania.
Longlisted for The Women\'s Prize for Fiction 2019 and The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019