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Published: 16/12/2010
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**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**

Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and banned actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup, so cold you burn furniture and books. But this is not just a struggle to exist, it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive...

A brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives, and a profoundly moving celebration of love, life and survival.

'Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better' Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph

'Literary writing of the highest order set against a background if suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there' Richard Overy, Sunday Telegraph

'Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should. . . a world-class novel' Antony Beevor, The Times

Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel, the McKitterick Prize winning, Zennor in Darkness. Her novels, Counting the Stars, Your Blue-Eyed Boy, With Your Crooked Heart, Burning Bright, House of Orphans, Mourning Ruby, A Spell of Winter, and Talking to the Dead, and her collection of short stories Love of Fat Men are all published by Penguin. This edition includes the first chapter of Betrayal, the sequel to The Siege.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241952191
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 223 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

A Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully - Sunday Telegraph

Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better - Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph

Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel - Antony Beevor, The Times

Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there - Sunday Telegraph

A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds - Mail on Sunday

In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece - Independent

A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time - Sunday Express

An important as well as a thrilling work of art - Independent on Sunday

A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful - Daily Mail

A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive - Sunday Times

Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better - Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph

Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel - Antony Beevor, The Times

Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there - Richard Overy, Sunday Telegraph

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“Gets right to the heart of the realities of war.”

Set in Leningrad in 1941, this marvellously envisaged novel tells the story of Leningraders faced with the hardest challenge of their lives – enduring a winter siege in the face of a relentless German onslaught. It is... More

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“Really enjoyed it!”

I really enjoyed reading this book - the wonderful descriptive passages really made me feel as if I was there and I liked the characters, especially Kolya! I would definately recommend this book to others, it's a... More

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“Not so much a page turner as a mind turner.”

It is a very good book of love and tragedy. Enjoyed reading it? Well, in a way. Maybe the wrong word. I felt the hunger, deprivation, misery and the agony of lingering death that was so well depicted. In so far as I,... More

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