SUSANA AIKIN

Three sisters in Spain seek to "cleanse" their recently deceased father's mansion. but instead release ghosts from their pasts...

Loosely based on the life of her great aunt, Susana Aikin's debut is an epic historical novel set in turn-of-the-20th-century London and Russia, against the backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War and the emergence of the Bolshevik revolution. It follows the exploits of Lily, a talented young actress disinherited by her father, who reaches great artistic heights on the London stage, only to be betrayed and whirled into a romance with a Russian count with whom she absconds to faraway Siberia.