Olga Anatolyevna Pokrovskaya is a writer whose books support us in difficult times and make up for the lack of goodness that we all sometimes feel. “Half the Kingdom” is a new novel that continues a series of sincere, spring-light books - “The Baker and Spring,” “Glad, Almost Happy...”, “Angel in a Green Tunic.” Olga Pokrovskaya writes about true friendship, love and mercy and always does it in a new way, with humor and a sensitive understanding of the human soul. The novel “Half a Kingdom” - deeply human, but at the same time daring and intense - raises the “eternal questions” of existence that everyone decides in my own way. The world of the friendly Spasyonov family, full of ancient comfort, mutual support and warmth, turns out to be unable to keep the heroes in their “paradise”. They rush into the wind of life to sacrifice themselves, make mistakes and exploits, lose their heads - but not remain indifferent. The heroes live spring in its entirety - from Maslenitsa to the beginning of summer - and during this time each of them faces the need to make a choice , changing the rest of our lives. Plunging into the atmosphere of the novel, we are surprised to discover how the text comes to life: a warm spring wind shines through the printed outline, the lacy shadow of trees flashes across the pages, and sometimes suddenly something invisible, healing sorrows, gently touches the soul, and the magic begins.