Vanishing Futurist

Vanishing FuturistThe debut novel from award winning author of Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia. When twenty two year old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. In 1917, revolution sweeps away the Moscow Gerty knew. The middle classes and their governesses are fleeing the country, but she stays, throwing herself into an

and a star

Massachusetts was the whaling capital of the world

unabashedly intelligent

And a mysterious figure has joined their world - one with the power to save or destroy them all

taking desperate chances for love and for ambition

Longlisted for The 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

The pictures speak a thousand words in this comic book-style ode to canine monomania

This book introduces such gems as a ventilating top hat

Life can be tough

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' - Mandy Baggot

they will both experience love and loss