Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. She is able to make some powerful statements about the durability of the human spirit, but never at the expense of descriptive passages refulgent with power and beauty' Barry Forshaw, amazon You may also be interested in.Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. it's quickly apparent that the Russian-born author Paullina Simons has the measure of this kind of epic romantic saga. Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind remains the blueprint for the genre, while Tolstoy's War and Peace carries off the literary honours. 'Pulling off the passionate love story embedded in a truly epic narrative is a difficult thing to do. It also has - thank goodness - a welcome sense of humour and discernible characters rather than ciphers.' 'This has everything a romance glutton could wish for: a bold, talented and dashing hero, a heart-stopping love affair. 'Pick up this book and prepare to have your emotions wrung so completely you'll be sobbing your heart out one minute and laughing through your tears the next. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780006513223 Number of pages: 656 Weight: 460 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 41 mm MEDIA REVIEWS With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it.Ĭonfronted on the one hand by Hitler's vast war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world.

The family suffers as Hitler's army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in.

On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE

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