6/10/2023 0 Comments A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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.īut this is not just a struggle to exist, it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history.įor two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and banned actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. ![]() **FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017** Leningrad, September 1941. ![]()
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