- Published: 18 June 2018
- ISBN: 9780241981276
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $28.00
The Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
- Published: 18 June 2018
- ISBN: 9780241981276
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $28.00
Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived. Explored with dancing wit, affection and brilliance, this is a passionate, hilarious, joyful love letter to Russian literature.
Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph
Enchanting. Groskop falls in love with the literature, her impressive knowledge of which she conveys with a charmingly breezy tone
Observer
A beguiling tasting menu of some of the finest reading experiences of my life. Witty, likeable, and lighthearted, Viv Groskop invites us to embrace the work of these august Russian dead souls as belonging to us all
Lionel Shriver
Groskop has a knack of giving you just enough biography of the author, just enough tantalising kiss-and-tell detail from the works . . . A delightful primer and companion to all the authors you are ashamed to admit you haven't read
The Times
What does Tolstoy have in common with Oprah Winfrey? What can Chekhov teach us about body image? In The Anna Karenina Fix, comedian Viv Groskop shows us how to use Russian literature as self-help, with hilarious and eye-opening results
Good Housekeeping
A wry literary memoir examining what we can learn from the great Russian novelists
Stylist
Funny and only second best to reading the stuff itself
Sara Wheeler, The Spectator
A highly knowledgeable jaunt through 150 years of literature
Observer