A comic romp celebrating lateflowering love in a Hungarian village that willappeal to readers of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and AShort Hi... » 

A comic romp celebrating lateflowering love in a Hungarian village that willappeal to readers of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and AShort History of Tractors in Ukrainian. Valeria is a whale in a puddle. Sheharrumphs her daily way through her backwater Hungarian village finding equalfault with the new the old the foreign and the familiar. Her decades ofuniversal contempt have turned her into a touchstone of her little communitywhatever she scorns the least must be the best after all. But on a day likeany other her spinsters heart is struck by an unlikely arrow The villagepotter long known and little noticed captures her fancy and Valeria findsherself suddenly cast in a role she never expected to play. This one deviationfrom character this one loose thread is all it takes for the delicately wovenfabric of village life to unravel. And for the first time in a long timeValeria couldnt care less. With humor and sensitivity author Marc Fittendelivers an unexpected and entirely inspiring first novel that will leave youbegging for more. «