A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian

I don't usually read novels but the title of this book (together with a drawing of an Ukranian tractor on the cover) was too much for me to pass by.

It tells the story of first and second generation Ukrainian exiles in British town - an elderly, lonely widowed father whose heart is still very much in the "old country" and his two feuding daughters. The book has much humour and amusing insights into the seam between British middle-class provincial society and the world of refugees in the New Europe. Nikolai (the father) falls in love (or so he thinks) with a busty Ukranian , Valentina, who seeks a better life in the UK for herself and her son Stanislav. Nadezhada, one of the daughters (in whose first person the book is written) is appalled , detests the potential stepmother and only finds sympathy for her after the marriage breaks down. An entertaining read.