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Join the International Instagram Giveaway for One Ukrainian Summer and The Memory of Animals

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I’m hosting a Giveaway on Instagram for a signed copy of Viv Groskop’s memoir, One Ukrainian Summer, and a signed copy of the paperback of The Memory of Animals. To enter visit my Instagram account: www.instagram.com/writerclairefuller, find my post with this image and follow the instructions.

The Giveaway is open to everyone no matter where you live, and closes on 21st July.

I’ve just finished reading One Ukrainian Summer and I loved it! It’s an account of a year in the 1990s when Viv travelled to Russia as part of her university degree. Age twenty, she works in St. Petersburg teaching English, and falls in love with a Ukrainian rock star. Things are not as she expects when she travels to his home in Ukraine to see him on stage. It’s funny and sweet, and so interesting to read about Russia just after it stopped being the USSR.

Enter the Giveaway.

Swimming Lessons Paperback Published in US

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The paperback of Swimming Lessons is published in the US today. My publisher, Tin House, has created a beautiful version of the hardback jacket using darker tones. And this version has book club questions in the back. If you do read it for your book club remember to take a picture of your group with the book and I’ll post the best to my Instagram account.

UK readers will have to wait a little longer for the paperback to be released.

The pictures above were taken and posted by some wonderful bookstagrammers, and if you’re on Instagram, I’d highly recommend following them all, not only for some wonderful bookish features, but lots of friendly bookish chat and reading suggestions.

Click to read more about Swimming Lessons.

Thanks to: @theloudlibrarylady @gracerajendran @bkInbooks @booksforyears @booksonherbrain @dlgillis20 @les_livres_ jennicapps15 @lblovesbooks for the pictures.