Come along to our FREE author talk with Mina Bancheva as we discuss her new book – A Secret Life
Timsbury Library, YMCA building 20th January 11am.
It is 1974 in Communist Bulgaria. Yana, a young woman living there, realises that she can’t go on living in the shadow of fear and oppression. She must escape somehow. Crossing the closed borders to the free world takes a feat of courage and imagination and when she finally reaches Britain, it is all she dreamt it would be. She begins to discover what liberty really means and falls in love with Daniel, an artist who seems to understand the sadness she carries for her lost homeland.
But Yana has not escaped her homeland after all; a deed she promised to carry out before she left holds her hostage to the past. She must make a choice: betray the man she loves or endanger the lives of the family she left behind.