“A PEARL IN THE OYSTER is an opening into the author’s unique world of extraordinary characters and situations. Her boundless imagination makes it possible for a demised granny talk to her granddaughter; a mother, overloaded with housework, runs away from her three children and husband to a ball that lasts all the year round; a girl is chased by the image of her boyfriend in the form of portraits; a father creates a charming but illusory world for his blind daughter; Saint Valentine, whose invisible force brings people together, can make a pearl appear in an oyster and turn it into a ring; a girl from Russia finds a match through a Russian-American matrimonial agency, but through a twist of fate, finds her true love closer home…..”