About the book: 2024 / Nadya Alekseeva was born in 1988 in the Moscow region. She graduated from the drama and prose workshops of CWS, published in “Youth”, “Friendship of Peoples” and “New World”. She became a finalist in “Lyubimovka” and “Lyceum”. Midnight Office is her debut novel. Valaam interweaves destinies and collides eras. Muscovite Pavel goes to the island to look for relatives, restoring the history of forty years ago. In the seventies, in the former cells there was a boarding school where WWII veterans and their families lived out their lives. Semyon finishes school there and dreams of becoming a doctor. His motorboat flies, spreading Ladoga into two white whiskers, and seals are basking in the shallows, and bonfires are drawn from the shore, and the bell that survived the war is buzzing. Very soon this world will collapse due to the shot of a Finnish rifle... “Midnight Office” is a novel about family ties, healing old wounds, bridges between “strangers” and miracles that happen.