The years pass quickly and imperceptibly, sometimes leaving behind a light trail of sadness and nostalgia, sometimes rolling onto the shore of life like a storm wave. Before you have time to look back, in one elusive moment “everything that was in the old heart came to life”, resurrected with a new, unknown force. There is love in everyone’s life, but it is so different: for some it is painful and unrequited, for others it is sparkling, giving hope and inspiration - but there is love that passes through generations and time, dozes and waits in the wings to wake up again ... Elena Radetskaya’s book “The Lazarus Effect”, full of bizarre plot collisions and twists, can be called an adventure-adventure, family and everyday, and psychological with elements of fantasy, but above all, it is a novel about love. About the search for all-encompassing, universal love: for a man, for a mother, for a child, for a stray red cat, for everything that surrounds a person. The heroine's love is love-passion, love-self-sacrifice, love-paradox, it does not imply reciprocity, and therefore is tragic in its essence, but, as it turns out, not hopeless. Radetskaya's prose is smart, subtle and gentle writing that can satisfy the most demanding literary taste. A precisely developed plot, convincing psychological motivations, vividly written characters - all this makes the novel “The Lazarus Effect” a work of a mature master, which will certainly find its reader.