Book of the Week - "A short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" by Marina Lewycka.
"Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blond Ukrainian divorcee. He was 84 and she was 36. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink drenade..." - says author. An international bestseller, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, takes us in love and suffering, family and ethnicity, sibling rivalry and the joys of growing old disgracefully.
