Olga Harkness has published her book of stories and poems, A Small World. It’s free on Kindle Unlimited, or available to purchase as a paperback. Find it on Amazon here.
Some tales of Olga’s childhood will make you cry, such as the account of her last ever Christmas in Ukraine, or her older brother’s secret midnight visit just before he was arrested and sent to Siberia. And the heartbreaking story of Nightingale, the teenage partisan boy with a heavenly voice, who serenaded five-year-old Olga the evening before he was caught and executed by the Polish Army. But there’s plenty of quirky humour too, such as an account of the village flasher, whose habit was cured by stinging nettles, Ladybird the hooligan cow, the man who was killed by a chicken, a talking cat and a spider with clever ideas of revenge.