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“... Of all Stepanova’s stories and images – marvellously rendered in this English translation by Sasha Dugdale – the most striking is a description of sekretiki, a game played by Moscow schoolchildren in the 1970s. They would drop to the ground and bury a little collection of cherished things – feathers, beads, the photograph of a celebrity cut from ...”

“... prop one’s body against a bolster was to court spiritual, medical and material danger. Sleep, Sasha Handley writes in her study of it in early modern England, ‘was understood as a state of transition between day and night, between degrees of consciousness, between the earthly and spiritual realms, and between life and death. The forces of nature moulded ...”