Marina Lewycka Books in Order

Estranged sisters unite when their elderly father falls for a much younger Ukrainian divorcee who wants a prosperous Western life. Their attempts to disrupt the relationship uncover family secrets and painful histories neither sister particularly wants to revisit.

Migrant strawberry pickers share two caravans in an English field, bringing different dreams and backgrounds into an uneasy community. Exploitative employers, bureaucracy and criminal gangmasters soon threaten their fragile hopes, sending them on journeys toward uncertain individual futures.

Abandoned by her husband and worried about her son, Georgie forms an unlikely friendship with an eccentric elderly neighbor. When unscrupulous estate agents target the woman’s home, Georgie intervenes and begins uncovering the long-hidden story of her past.

Former commune members Doro and Marcus discover that their children have embraced the security and material comforts they rejected. A family announcement and wider upheaval force parents and offspring to confront concealed choices, incompatible ideals and uncomfortable truths about themselves.

A detective whose reading offers escape from ordinary frustrations becomes involved in a case echoing a favorite novel. Revisiting characters from A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, this short story adds an erotic twist to familiar comic complications.

Afraid of losing his council flat after his mother dies, a London man recruits an elderly woman to impersonate her. Around them, precarious employment, housing pressures and local politics fuel a farce about survival in a rapidly changing city.

An eight-year-old girl is taken from her family’s home into immigration detention, where fear and uncertainty replace ordinary childhood. Repeated threats of removal expose the strain on her parents and force her into responsibilities far beyond her years.

After abandoning his wife for a neighbor, George believes a lottery win will complete his new life. Trouble accessing the money draws him toward criminals abroad, forcing his estranged family to decide whether they can reunite long enough to rescue him.