Delivery Room

I can't seem to get past the first hundred pages. The main character, Mira, goes on and on about her homeland, how no one understands her, how she's hated in England, blah, blah, blah.

Mira is a Serbian psychotherapist, living in London, and, like many fictional (and real) shrinks, has a complicated family situation. Her husband, Peter, is dying of cancer; she has a stepson; her sister is married to her ex-boy friend.

Sylvia Brownrigg's "The Delivery Room" is set in London in 1998 and 1999, and focuses on Peter Braverman and his Serbian-born wife, Mira. Peter is a teacher and scholar who specializes in Russian literature, while Mira practices psychotherapy in their Camden Town flat.