White Blood

Charlie Doig has a Scottish father and a Russian mother. A naturalist, he roughs it round the world collecting birds and insects for museums. When the Russian revolution breaks out in 1917, he’s working in Turkestan. His pay is stopped and his companion goes off to enlist. He returns to his mother’s family home, The Pink House, outside Smolensk. There he falls in love with his cousin, Elizaveta, and marries her. But the days of imperial Russia are numbered: the Bolsheviks are closing in. What do lovers do when beset by ruin and revenge on all sides? What could anyone do in 1917? That’s Charlie Doig, that’s White Blood, which is the first of the Charlie Doig stories.



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