This novel takes place during WWII and is set in St. Petersburg during the winter the Germans basically surrounded the city and cut off all food supplies in attempt to starve the 3 million citizens to death. It is based on fact but the story is fiction. The main characters are a widowed man reunited with the woman he had an affair with while he was married and his daughter and her lover. The story is so gripping that you can feel the coldness and starvation in your own bones. It is hard to believe that Helen Dunmore was not a survivor of this terrible time-she does an excellent job of telling a story that should not be forgotten. If you like Holocaust book, historical fiction or coming of age novels, I think you would enjoy this.
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