The Visitors

by Mary McMinnies

The Visitors are a British couple, their two children and their nanny who are sent to live in Krakow in the early years of Iron Curtain Poland. The story centers on Millie, the wife, a pretty, spoiled and self-centered Englishwoman who gets in over her head dabbling in the black market, though it started out as a humanitarian effort to get desperately needed medicines into the country.

576 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

Reviews

[Steph-b · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my favourite book of all time, and I have read thousands. These characters must have been real people, they are so well described. The world described in this book is more real than real life, the author draws you in and absorbs you entirely. I have read and reread this book many times yet I still reread it every year and it still delights me.

[Ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful novel. Psychologically insightful and excellent evocation of Cold War Eastern Europe.

[Adam Dunn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Got to chapter 6. I hate reading about wealthy British people and their pish-posh problems, and this book does not seem to prove the exception.

[Janet Bird]

It'll have to be a page a night, I just do not fancy it. I have the 1960 hardback from The Reprint Society. It's a smashing book, complete with dustcover in sepia tones. I've been influenced by the two reviews so will give it a whirl. There's a photograph of the author on the back inside cover and she's written the blurb herself coming across a tad priggish.