The great-niece of Boris Pasternak - the author of Dr Zhivago - is suing US novelist Lara Prescott for £2 million claiming she stole substantial parts of the book she wrote about her uncle's epic novel, a court heard today.Anna Pasternak claims her book, Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago, was the unauthorised source for Lara Prescott's fiction bestseller The Secrets We Kept.The niece's book is a biography of Boris Pasternak and his mistress Olga Ivinskaya, who she claims is the inspiration for 'Lara' in the classic 1957 novel.
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