Kristin Hannah: The Winter Garden

Meredith and Nina Whitson are sisters, but it would be hard to find two women more different. One is a homebody who always believed there was no better destiny than to marry, raise children, and manage the family apple orchard. The other dreamed of wandering, became a photojournalist covering humanitarian disasters, and travels the world, avoiding any talk of the future or family. Their father's illness brings the sisters together at their childhood home. From their Russian-born mother, they have never known anything but icy disapproval, and even now, Anya makes no attempt to draw closer to her daughters, displaying the detachment they know all too well. In childhood, only one thing connected them to their mother: a fairy tale about a poor girl and a prince, which she told the girls at night. Realizing he is dying, the father asks his daughters to hear the story out—to the very end. Thus begins the two women's journey into their mother's past, into her life in besieged Leningrad, into a terrifying and beautiful icy world.

Author: Kristin Hannah

Pages: 502 (offset paper). Hardcover

Dimensions: 220x140x20 mm