TWO CARAVANS by Marina Lewycka

An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday.

But who picks our strawberries these days? The Ukranians. Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and eager to improve her excellent English and find true love with a romantic Englishman; Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Bob Dylan fan, Tomasz; Yola, the petite, voluptuous gang mistress, and her religious niece Marta, who finds the wild mushrooms to cook with the sliced loaf; then there's Vitaly, king of the new mobilfon world of the shiny new Eastern Europe; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round-eyed 18-year-old from Malawi, come to England to look for his sister. And although he can't exactly help pick strawberries, there's also the Dog...

But these are a group leading dangerous lives - exploitative employers, British regulations and gang masters with guns will all threaten their existence as they take to the caravan road until each of them peels off to find their destiny.

Hard cover, the book is clean and in good condition. The dust jacket shows some signs of fading and wear.