Mary's Poland

They see her as evil. Cursed, so the znakharka says. Diseased. Her strange language plots against them. She is Mary Nikodemski, the know-all English woman.

Mary's Poland follows the life of Irish-born Mary, never the English now, brought by her husband, Nikoda, to his peasant farm near Lida on the western plains of the Russian Empire.

Lonely, with Nikoda away at sea for most of the year and up to all sorts of carry on, Mary finds comfort in a few Jewish friendships, warmth in Nikoda's parents...