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Signed and numbered with stencilled edges,first edition and printing.Olga Pushkin, Railway Engineer (Third Class) and would-be bestselling author,spends her days in a little rail-side hut with Dmitri the hedgehog for company. While tourists and travellers clatter by on the Trans-Siberian Express. Olga dreams of studying literature at Tomsk State University - the Oxford of West Siberia - and escaping the sleepy,snow-clad village of Roslanzy.But Roslazny doesn"t stay sleepy for long. Poison-pen letters,a small-town crime wave,and persistent rumours of a Baba Yaga - a murderous witch hiding in the frozen dephts of the Russian taiga - combine to disturb the icy hut only to be knocked unconscious by a man falling from the Trans-Siberian,an American tourist with his throat cut from ear to ear and his mouth stuffed with 10 rouble coins.....

Book has been signed by author without dedication,dust jacket has not been priced clipped,first edition and printing,very nice copy of this hard to find book.

July,1940,Eleven-year-old Lydia walks through a Suffolk village on a baking hot day. She is wearing a gas mask. The shops and houses are empty,windows boarded up and sandbags green with mildew.She strikes off down a country lane to a large Edwardian house - the house she grew up in. But Lydia finds it empty too,the windows covered in black-out blinds,Her family is gone...Late that night he comes,a soldier,gun in hand and heralding a full-blown German invasion. There are,he explains to her,certain rules she must abide by. He won"t hurt Lydia,but she cannot leave the house.Is he telling the truth ? What is he looking for ? Why is he so familiar ? And how does he already know Lydia"s name ?Book has been signed and dated by author,first edition and impression.