Mesmerizing from the first page to the last, Kristin Hannah’s Winter season Garden can be one woman’s sweeping, heartbreaking story of appreciate, loss, and redemption. At once an epic love story occur World War II Russia and an intimate portrait of modern mothers and daughters poised on the crossroads of their lives, it explores the heartbreak of battle, the expense of success and the ultimate triumph from the human spirit. It really is a book that will haunt the reader long following the last page can be turned.

1941..READING Even more about Winter Garden Leningrad, a once magical town besieged by battle, cut off from help, buried in snow. A town full of women desperate to save lots of their children and themselves…

2000. Loss and old age have taken an awful toll on Anya Whitson. Finally, she will get in touch with her estranged daughters. Within a halting, uncertain tone of voice, she starts to weave a fable in regards to a gorgeous Russian gal who resided in Leningrad an eternity ago…

Nina and Meredith sit spellbound in their mother’s bedside, listening to a tale that spans a lot more than sixty years and movements in the terrors of war-torn Leningrad under siege to modern-day Alaska.

In a search to uncover the truth behind the storyplot, Nina and Meredith discover a secret so shocking, so impossible to believe, it shakes the building blocks of their family and changes who they believe they may be.

“Another powerful story of family love, and strong women…a fascinating story that weaves fairy tales into reality, fairy tales that don’t always have the expected endings.” ―The Herald-News

“…a gripping examine. Hannah’s audience will see plenty to go over with this enthralling entrance.” ―Booklist