In the 1890s, eight self-reliant Massachusetts women travel with a German guide to St. Petersburg. The narrator, from a small town among the Worcester hills, meets the Russian Nicol Patoff, a gendarme, a dog called Chance and a highwayman, and a hidden fugitive and a mocking Sophie draw the travellers into intrigue and a late-blooming love story.
A novel by one of America’s best-selling domestic writers, unusual for its foreign setting. Download the free EPUB.