Broadcaster, writer and comedian Viv Groskop has signed a new book deal with Fig Tree publishers, called The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature takes its tips from the Russian classics and described as a “literary self-help memoir.”
Viv regularly talks about her passion for Russia in her stand-up and says: “I fell in love with the Russian classics in my teenage years and have turned back to them regularly in times of crisis.
“They can’t solve every problem in life. There’s no mention of a cure for head lice, for example, which I caught repeatedly from a Ukrainian boyfriend when I was living in St Petersburg during the Yeltsin era. But they do have an answer to all the big questions from love and marriage to depression and mortality.”
Publishing director Juliet Annan said: “I’ve always enjoyed Viv’s writing – she is one the funniest writers around, and this book will combine her powers of empathy and her warm wit brilliantly.”
This book follows on from Viv’s 2013 book I Laughed, I Cried, which told the, occasionally harrowing, tale of working mum Viv’s entry into stand-up by performing 100 gigs in 100 days.
