About the book: 2022 / Friendship arises between Anya and Lera, the new girl in the class, and with it - a whole fictional kingdom, into which the girls seek to escape from embittered classmates and the oddities of her parents: one grows up with a sectarian mother, the other with a fanatical communist father. Growing up tests the strength of friendship, and children's fantasies and rituals gradually become more and more strange and cruel and increasingly invade reality... The author is a winner of the Manuscript of the Year award – 2021».