Oh I love trashy novels with the best of em......but sometimes......[return][return]Started off well, with a Russian peasant girl working her way up to be the best known actress in Russia (and the Tzar's mistress), only for everything to be lost in the Revolution.[return][return]I have a feeling I read this book a long time ago, and struggled then too.[return][return]Time goes on, her daughter gets involved with the Jewish people, and *her* daughter (and the rest of the family) gets involved in the attempt to start the Jewish state. Lots of violence, kidnaps, escapes, betrayals, loyalty, aggressive sex that passes for exciting love, the usual stuff (well worn copy with the spine broken at the really "interesting" - ahem - parts for the one handed reader).......meh