Mrs Marchmont in Russia

Set in the fascinating time window of immediate post-Soviet Russia, this tale takes Scottish crime novelist Hugo off to that enigmatic land. Deprived of a gap year in youth, he decides now, in his mid-forties, to have one, with tax benefits being an added incentive. At the same time, he can perhaps have his long-expected midlife crisis there too and save his Scottish friends embarrassment. He ends up still not having it.