Nina Olsson lives happily on the Wirral Peninsula UK with her three cats, her children long ago having left to lead their own interesting lives. A lover of travel and adventure, the Arts and live music, she is always involved in some project or another and ever ready for the next one.

• Part One - RevelationsChapter One Aunty A 3Chapter Two Aunty E 8Chapter Three Aunty K 15Chapter Four Happy Days 22Chapter Five Work and Play 27Chapter Six Christmas and Questions 32Chapter Seven Confessions 38Chapter Eight On the Road 42Chapter Nine Our New Home 46Part Two - The JourneyChapter Ten Sighișoara 51Chapter Eleven Revelations 56Chapter Twelve Road to Odesa 61Chapter Thirteen Back on Russian Soil 66Chapter Fourteen Life in the Dacha 71Chapter Fifteen St Petersburg 77Chapter Sixteen On the Farm 83Chapter Seventeen Another Train Journey 88Chapter Eighteen The Stables 94Chapter Nineteen Road to Sweden 99Chapter Twenty Tornio 103Part Three - Life in a New AgeChapter Twenty One At the Camp 109Chapter Twenty Two On to Karlstad 114Chapter Twenty Three Gothenburg 118Chapter Twenty Four Passage to America 121Chapter Twenty Five The SS Drottningholm 126Chapter Twenty Six New York 131Chapter Twenty Seven Fun Times 137Chapter Twenty Eight Dilemmas 143Chapter Twenty Nine Resolutions 148Chapter Thirty What Is, Is. What Cannot Be, Cannot Be 153Characters 157Acknowledgements 162