Highlights
Quality
They had had to live with the consequences of man’s inhumanity to man
You will shiver with the cold of the freezing russian winter barely surviving fighting starvation
Packaging/appearance
Eventually as the food gradually begins to break through the blockade the colour and senses return to the narrative
Competitiveness
In another authors hands this might have been lush with romantic melodrama but dunmore keeps it clean and cold allowing the det... Read More
A story of survival against the odds
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- This product had a total of 521 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 26 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Very moving depiction of the horrors of war
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The characters may be fictional but you do not doubt that their stories echo reality
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Surely it is helen dunmore’s most engaging novel
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I’m watching on bbc news the marches all around the world for black lives matter
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A brilliant portrait of russia during ww2
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The author skilfully describes the situation in leningrad
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A harrowing but compelling read helen dunmore has really captured the essence of this terrible experience of ww2
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Some lovely description and original images