The awarding of Elena Styazhkina with the Belkin Teacher Prize, established by Moscow literature teachers, became one of the brightest events and main intrigues of the literary season. Styazhkina’s brilliant psychological prose - despite her youth, she is already a doctor of historical sciences and a professor at Donetsk National University! – has always attracted special attention from the reading public. At one time, a real battle broke out on the Internet between those who do not accept the genre of psychological women's prose and its admiring fans. Stories, novellas and novels by Elena Styazhkina are known and loved in Ukraine, Germany and Canada, and the collection you are holding in your hands includes the most discussed works of the writer.