Publisher's Synopsis
When eager-to-please, accident-prone Taras Krohe ambles into an English public school - on a puzzling scholarship, with his funny foreign name, no father, but an over-protective Bukovinian mother - disappointment beckons. A decade later, Taras and his mother are still living off their benefactress, Mrs Bartlett, in a cramped South London flat, while Taras's promising job has warped into a Kafkaesque nightmare. His truculent Russian girlfriend has decamped with a ponytailed aesthete. And when Mrs Bartlett dies, eviction looms. Now even the easygoing Taras must show his mother he's a man and uncover the secret behind his family's plummet into disaster. However, she's determined to wrestle her little pourchi away from the dangerous influences his search reveals, and it's not certain who will come out on top...
