From Amazon.co.uk:
When big-boned, eager-to-please, accident-prone Taras Krohe ambles into a stiff English public school on a puzzling scholarship with his funny foreign name, an eccentric and over-protective Bukovinian mother, and no father at all, disappointment beckons.

A decade later, Taras and his mother are still living off their benefactress Mrs Bartlett in a cramped South London flat, while Taras's promising job has warped into a Kafkaesque nightmare, and his truculent Russian girlfriend has decamped with a ponytailed aesthete. When the mysterious Mrs Bartlett dies, an old schoolfriend with a grudge emerges and eviction looms. Now even the terminally easygoing Taras must show his mother he's a man, and uncover the secret behind his family's plummet into disaster. But she has other ideas for her little pourchi: she's determined to wrestle him away from the dangerous influences his search reveals. And it's by no means certain who will come out on top...

Bought at the Penrith City Library book sale.

Left at the book exchange.

Release #3 for the 2017 Valentine Challenge.

Retrieved from Newington Community Centre. Will rerelease elsewhere.

Left at the book exchange outside Liquorland and Coles on level 3.

Release #6 for the 2019 Valentine Challenge.
Release #5 for the 2019 Becky's Hugs Challenge.

This book is being released in Becky's memory.
Becky's Hugs