Two Cousins of Azov

Two Cousins of Azov
Andrea Bennett

A heartwarming novel about the surprise of second chances in the autumn of your life. Gor is keeping busy. He has a magic show to rehearse, his new assistant to get in line and a dacha in dire need of weeding. But he keeps being distracted by a tapping on his window – four floors up. Is old age finally catching up with him?Tolya has woken from a long illness to find his memory gone. Tidied away in a sanatorium, with only the view of a pine tree for entertainment, he is delighted when young doctor Vlad decides to make a project of him. With a keen listener by his side, and the aid of smuggled home-made sugary delights, Tolya’s boyhood memories return, revealing dark secrets…Two Cousins of Azov is a tender and wonderful story of two men who, in the autumn of their years, have the chance to learn that memories can heal, as well as haunt.

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Dedication (#ue0435510-83e1-5197-9377-fc03b7299c17)

For Mum and Dad

Table of Contents

Cover (#u2a941ee4-62d0-5281-9276-ad762c982470)

Title Page (#u5638458c-6d31-5b12-864a-1d59a05e4950)

Copyright (#ua51e151b-9c1e-5ea1-b065-3259836f1a13)

Dedication (#ub72ad7da-da23-55e8-bc5c-ef3403416102)

The Disappearing Egg (#u894f6ca0-ca04-5894-b7a1-1416136c6dbf)

A Mothy Mouthful (#udce3c757-cf06-548a-bc76-0fa4d7a3f3e7)

Tolya Talks (#ucc0e8dfe-0911-5e51-984f-acfa044045ca)

A Study in Bisection (#ud01c68f8-1337-57e8-bbe0-da56adb8e53e)

A Shiver in the Trees (#uf763e7b7-252f-5859-9ba5-0f7972d3cf69)

The Palace of Youth (#uf315544c-c3b8-547b-9101-bbe1c7e7e514)

Sveta’s Acrobat (#litres_trial_promo)

Open Flame (#litres_trial_promo)

Dill and Doughnuts (#litres_trial_promo)

You Can’t Pickle Love (#litres_trial_promo)

The Princess (#litres_trial_promo)

Colours and Crayons (#litres_trial_promo)

My Name Is Sveta (#litres_trial_promo)

Zoya Asks the Spirits (#litres_trial_promo)

Suspicion (#litres_trial_promo)

The Ideas Incubator (#litres_trial_promo)

Super Rush (#litres_trial_promo)

Between Pink Sheets (#litres_trial_promo)

The Kindly Orderly (#litres_trial_promo)

A Subdued Troika (#litres_trial_promo)

Vim and Vigour (#litres_trial_promo)

Ice-Cream (#litres_trial_promo)

Moonlight (#litres_trial_promo)

Muddy Goings on (#litres_trial_promo)

A Splash of Zelenka (#litres_trial_promo)