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Entertaining and timely (Evening Standard)

Laugh-out-loud . . . [an] appealing, entertaining social comedy. (Daily Express)

Warmth, kindness and inclusivity lie at the core of all Lewycka's books, and are the keys to her popularity. [In The Lubetkin Legacy] she offers a heartfelt message about the vital importance of tolerance and community. (Sunday Times)

Hilarious . . . strong characters, lively pace and general feelgood tone . . . Don't leave it too long before treating yourself to this satisfying, easy read. (My Weekly)

Loved it to bits - it's so big-hearted, filled with such great characters and such cracking jokes, and, underneath it all, so very angry about the state of Britain today. (Deborah Moggach)

If I could write something a tenth as funny as this I would die happy. (Emma Beddington, author of We’ll Always Have Paris)

About the Author

Marina Lewycka's first novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, longlisted for the Man Booker and won the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the Waverton Good Read Award. Her other novels are Two Caravans, We Are All Made of Glue and Various Pets Alive and Dead. Marina Lewycka lives in Sheffield.

36:T42b, The Lubetkin Legacy is another mad sprawling story from Marina Lewycka. Berthold lives with his elderly mother in Madeley Court, a tower block built by the celebrated architect Lubetkin. She is adamant that Berthold should not lose the flat when she dies so he enlists Inna, his mother's neighbour in the hospital ward in a madcap scheme to impersonate his mother so he can i