For years Nadezhda and Vera two Ukrainian sisters raised in England by their refugee parents have had as little as possible to do with each other – and they have their reasons. But now they find they’d better learn how to get along because since their mother’s death their aging father has been sliding into his second childhood and an alarming new woman has just entered his life. Valentina a bosomy young synthetic blonde from the Ukraine seems to think their father is much richer than he is and she is keen that he leave this world with as little money to his name as possible. If Nadazhda and Vera don’t stop her no one will. But separating their addled and annoyingly lecherous dad from his new love will prove to be no easy feat – Valentina is a ruthless pro and the two sisters swiftly realize that they are mere amateurs when it comes to ruthlessness. As Hurricane Valentina turns the family house upside down old secrets come falling out including the most deeply buried one of them all from the War the one that explains much about why Nadazhda and Vera are so different.In the meantime oblivious to it all their father carries on with the great work of his dotage a grand history of the tractor.

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The eighth Discworld novel! ; ; “The people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them I work all day a man’s got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That’s oppression that is. If I’m not under the heel of the oppressor I don’t know who is!” ; ; The air of mean-minded resentfulness is thick in the streets of Ankh-Morpork. Insurrection is in the air. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. The Have-Nots want some of their own magic. But magic in the hands of amateurs is a dangerous thing. ; ; The City Watch is the last line of defence against such unnatural goings-on. But when even the Watch have trouble telling Right from Wrong you know that Law and Order ain’t what it used to be. But that’s all about to change…

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