'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee.  He was eighty - four and she was thirty - six.  She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed - off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.'

Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina.  But the sisters' campaign digs back into fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget ...

Read by Sian Thomas

3 hours 45 mins on 3 CDs