Wonderful . . . a vivid and endearing pictures of family life The TimesHeartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure, this is an esquisite, compelling study of survival and emotional resilience Daily MailSeptember 1939. The Soviets advance into Poland. Young officers wife Lena has one chance to flee the country with her daughter. Instead she chooses to return to her childhood home. When the Russian army reach their village, Lena and her family are denounced as enemies of the state and exiled to the freezing hell of Siberia.Amid the hunger and backbreaking work in deep snow, she discovers something remarkable even while youre fighting to survive, it is possible to fall in love. What she cant imagine are the consequences of love. And the choice that must be made.

Binding: Paperback;384 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FA; Weight: 390 g; Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 29

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