Thick as Thieves

Here are two novellas by popular Russian writer Natalia Mironina. The title of the book was given by the key story “Don’t Spill the Water.”

An old quarrel split once-kind neighbors onto opposite sides of the barricades, but love sees no obstacles, and the children of warring fathers end up together—despite everything. Can a story that ended badly in ancient Verona be brought to a happy ending in modern Moscow? Yes—if the lovers aren’t abandoned by faithful friends and wise advisers.