Self Help (published as Pravda in the US) is a novel by English author Edward Docx, published in 2007 by Picador; it won Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize that year and was also long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.^[1] The novel has received positive reviews,^[2] his description of cities being compared to both Dickens^[3] and Dostoevsky.^[4]

"Alone in her native St. Petersburg, Maria Glover sends an urgent summons to London and New York. Her son and daughter arrive too late to see her".^[5] Their mother's death marks the beginning of the twins search for the truth about her...