Sir Maxim West, a wealthy English businessman, almost dies in an attack by a robber. During his recovery, he has time to think about his life, where did he go astray, why did he become the lost boy? He was born in Germany in the 1930s as the one-eyed, adored child of the director of the Westheim bank, but the rise of Nazism destroyed his parents' lives. Maxim was evacuated to England, but they did not survive the persecution of the Jews. In the 1950s, in addition to his growing wealth, he wanted only one thing: to marry the beautiful Anastasia, the blonde Belarusian girl. But when the marriage finally takes place, his workaholism quickly takes a toll on their happiness, and they end up divorcing. His second wife, the beautiful actress, dies in an accident, the third makes him unhappy, his girlfriend gets pregnant, even though he doesn't want more children. His life becomes hopelessly tangled, and that's when the shot comes. In the hospital, he wakes up to find his first and third wives, his lover, his daughter, and his former governess, his surrogate mother, who helped rescue him from Nazi Germany, standing around his bed. Which of them will find the lost boy, which of them will create a home for him? The book has already been published by a different publisher, in a different translation, under the title Maxim and Women.

Europe Publishing House
Entertaining literature

ISBN: 9789630795609
By Barbara Taylor Bradford