The billfold
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The billfold
Alma loved money, and money loved Alma. A novel from the author of historical bestsellers.
When Alma was thirteen, a currency reform was declared in post-war Czechoslovakia, and it ruined her family. The doctor's daughter, accustomed to life in a large villa, suddenly found herself in a tiny ground-floor flat with two grandmothers and a poor social standing. But Alma was not the kind of girl to sit around idly. This is her story. The story of a woman who, during the era of totalitarianism, clawed her way up to join the wealthiest shadow elite. She lived in fairytale luxury, but what she longed for most was something that money couldn't buy… This novel from the author of historical bestsellers invites you into the times of post-war and Normalisation-era Czechoslovakia and its grey economy.
Scarlett Wilková
Scarlett Wilková is a journalist who has been writing since she joined the editorial team of a company magazine in Ostrava after finishing her secondary school education. She then worked for various media outlets, and for the last twenty years, she has written primarily for Magazín DNES, where she focuses on interviews and topics related to social trends. She is also involved in non-profit projects concerning the lives of senior citizens. She collaborates with the Post Bellum organisation, which runs the Memory of the Nation database. For them, she recorded the memories of Greek witnesses, which inspired her debut novel, Až uvidíš moře (When You See the Sea). In her second novel, Ty chladné oči (Those Cold Eyes), she touches upon the theme of collaboration with the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Her book Desetkrát a dost (Ten Times and That's Enough) returns to Greece. Her novel Když přišli psi (When the Dogs Came) depicts the fates of the inhabitants of the post-war Beskydy Mountains.
