About the book: 2010 / Ksenia Dragunskaya - a modern playwright, author of many plays performed in theaters in Moscow, Russia, near and far abroad - has written a truly piercing book about childhood. “The Bicycle Delusion” is an autobiographical novel. The story is told from the perspective of a little girl, Ksyusha, who dreams of a bicycle, a dog and her parents-friends, but she is constantly left in the care of strangers' aunts and grandmothers, punished for her desire to be a loved child and in no hurry to fulfill her most cherished childhood desires. And what else can a “lonely girl-without-a-puppy” talking with a river, a hillside and yard dogs do, other than become a writer and tell the most touching and slightly sad story about a childhood that will not be repeated?..