What Now, Mr Wolf? - Eva Vezhnavets five years her junior

five years her junior

The name Dessaintes is one to reckon with

why do you dance when you walk

One little girl makes a bid for escape from her sadistic parents' reign of terror and turns to school for salvation

” she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town in West Germany

What Now, Mr Wolf? - Eva Vezhnavets five years her juniorRyna comes home from abroad to the wake of her granny Darafeya in Nauhalnaye, a village in the drained marshlands near Lipen, in a remote corner of Belarus. That night as Ryna sits alone with the coffin, Darafeya, who lived to be a hundred, tells one last story. She and her grandmother, one eyed Maryanka, known as the 'whisperers', managed to survive several brutal regimes, feared and respected by their neighbours for their powers of healing and