**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.
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