Marina Lewycka

Marina Lewycka is a gifted and entertaining storyteller whose popularity became assured with her first novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian. Just like her books, her events are full of energy and humour which has made her loved by festival audiences. In this event she introduces her latest book We Are All Made Of Glue which charts the unlikely friendship between an abandoned wife and her eccentric old Jewish emigr? neighbour.

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