I found this hard going; it was dramatised on Radio 4 but maybe their adaptation was better than the book.
About an English governess who goes to work in Moscow just before the 1917 revolution and falls in with a bunch of revolutionaries who occupy the house she was working in. She has an affair with one of them and becomes pregnant, but he runs off with the daughter of one of her employers. He (I can’t remember his name, begins with B) is obviously even more radical and perhaps reluctant than his co-revolutionaries, but is eventually murdered by the secret police. It is almost documentary like in its narrative of how they live their lives in these obviously strange circumstances, but for me completely lacks any narrative pace and there is little interesting character interaction. So, disappointing.
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