All the books by Lyubov Fedorovna Larkina, including “The Walk of Time,” captivate with their optimism, faith in a better life, love for the Motherland and for people. This is doubly admirable when you learn about her difficult childhood at the front during the Great Patriotic War, when the life of a fragile girl literally hung by a thread. But she overcame everything, endured and did not break under the weight of the numerous troubles and adversities that befell her. As a life-affirming motto for this book, you can take the words from the author’s poem “Stork”: “After the rain, the sun shines again. The spring fields sparkle with a rainbow. A stork froze in admiration on the roof. And the irrigated land breathes with happiness.”