About the book: 2021 / Olga is soon 36 years old, and she is in a very difficult situation. After the divorce, she gets an apartment in the center of St. Petersburg, which is impossible to live in because the house is undergoing major renovations. A former communal apartment, full of secrets and mysteries, shrouded in the legend of a treasure hidden there - a tasty morsel for an adventure lover. And even though the most correct thing is to sell the apartment and buy a normal one, without mice and mold, Olga doesn’t even think about doing that. She falls in love with the apartment from the first minutes and is going to unravel all its secrets. Her beloved man is against it, her mother is furious, and her best friend considers her an incorrigible adventurer. And you can't argue with them. But Olga is unable to ignore the tales about Lomov’s treasure, the story of the unsociable Countess and the mysterious inhabitant of the attic who loves to read Bunin. Mysteries beckon, and she plunges headlong into solving them, while at the same time defending the right to be who she is. "Not Ideal Me" is a novel about finding yourself in the modern world.