Beyond the Samovar

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‘Beyond the Samovar’ is a gripping, engaging story of escape, love and loss.

In 1919, a young English couple, Livvy and Peter, leave Baku, which the previous year had become the capital of an independent Azerbaijan. While Livvy is reluctant to leave her home, Peter sees no future for Britons in the new country and treats their escape as an adventure. With their baby, they bluff and bribe their way across Bolshevik and White Russian territory to Archangel on the north coast of Russia, hoping to board a British ship. Only two of them ever manage to reach home.

I have had short stories and poetry published in online and print anthologies and literary journals.

In long fiction, I explore how events between the 2 world wars might have impacted ordinary individuals. My novel Beyond the Samovar, set in Russia and England 1919-20, was published in 2019 by The Conrad Press. The West in Her Eyes, a tale of exile, ambition and love in a fictional Russian family during the decade after the 1917 revolution, was published in 2024 by Resolute Books.

I enjoy gardening, choral and chamber singing, and choosing books for small family-members.