Because their uncle decides that the Golitevs would wait out the revolution in the hope that things would return to normal, Irina and Lilya Goliteva are eking out a precarious existence in Moscow. Anyone who knows a bit about Russian history will know that there are several long decades of Soviet rule stretching out ahead of 1921. Irina and Lilya have no way of knowing this, of course, but they know that their only chance of a long life is to somehow get themselves out of Russia. It’s hard enough to get one person past the murderous Red Army and nascent Soviet government, let alone the remnant of their family (two children, an aunt, and a grandmother), let alone the remnant of an aristocratic family. Olesya Salnikova Gilmore’s atmospheric and gripping new novel, The Haunting of Moscow House, follows Irina and Lilya as they face battles that might finally end their illustrious family...

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