We Shall See The Sky Sparkling
Loosely based on the life of her great aunt, Susana Aikin's debut is an epic historical novel set in turn-of-the-20th-century London and Russia, against the backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War and the emergence of the Bolshevik revolution. It follows the exploits of Lily, a talented young actress disinherited by her father, who reaches great artistic heights on the London stage, only to be betrayed and whirled into a romance with a Russian count with whom she absconds to faraway Siberia.