Mesmerizing from the first page to the last, Winter Garden is one woman\'s sweeping, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and redemption.
Hannah\'s audience will find plenty to discuss in this enthralling entry."-- Booklist. "Another powerful story of family love, and strong women...a fascinating story that weaves fairy tales into reality, fairy tales that don\'t always have the expected endings."-- The Herald-News ..".a gripping read.
In a quest to uncover the truth behind the story, Nina and Meredith discover a secret so shocking, so impossible to believe, it shakes the foundation of their family and changes who they believe they are.
Nina and Meredith sit spellbound at their mother\'s bedside, listening to a story that spans more than sixty years and moves from the terrors of war-torn Leningrad under siege to modern-day Alaska.
In a halting, uncertain voice, she begins to weave a fable about a beautiful Russian girl who lived in Leningrad a lifetime ago...
At last, she will reach out to her estranged daughters.
Loss and old age have taken a terrible toll on Anya Whitson. 2000.
A city full of women desperate to save their children and themselves...
Leningrad, a once magical city besieged by war, cut off from aid, buried in snow. 1941.
It is a novel that will haunt the reader long after the last page is turned.
At once an epic love story set in World War II Russia and an intimate portrait of contemporary mothers and daughters poised at the crossroads of their lives, it explores the heartbreak of war, the cost of survival and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.
Mesmerizing from the first page to the last, Winter Garden is one woman\'s sweeping, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and redemption
