Gorgito’s Ice Rink

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My debut novel is inspired by the first person I worked for in Russia. He had an ambition to build an ice rink. But he died before he was able to fulfil his dream. So I decided to build it for him. The result is Gorgito’s Ice Rink, which was Runner Up in the 2015 Writing Magazine Self-Published Book of the Year Awards.

Two small boys grieving for lost sisters — torn between family and other loves. Can the fulfilment of one promise make up for the failure to keep an earlier one?

When Gorgito Tabatadze sees his sister run off with a soldier, he is bereft. When she disappears into Stalin’s Gulag system, he is devastated. He promises their mother on her death-bed he will find the missing girl and bring her home; but it is to prove an impossible quest.

Forty years later, Gorgito, now a successful businessman in post-Soviet Russia, watches another young boy lose his sister to a love stronger than family. When a talented Russian skater gets the chance to train in America, Gorgito promises her grief-stricken brother he will build an ice-rink in Nikolevsky, their home town, to bring her home again.

With the help of a British engineer, who has fled to Russia to escape her own heartache, and hindered by the local Mayor, who has his own reasons for wanting the project to fail, can Gorgito overcome bureaucracy, corruption, economic melt-down and the harsh Russian climate in his quest to build the ice rink and bring a lost sister home? And will he finally forgive himself for breaking the promise to his mother?

A tale of love, loss and broken promises, Gorgito’s Ice Rink tells one man’s story through the eyes of the people whose lives he touched. 

To obtain a signed copy directly from Chudleigh Phoenix Publications, contact Elizabeth Ducie on 01626 854611 or elizabeth@elizabethducie.co.uk

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