Winter Garden
Book Overview
- First published
- 27 Dec 2009
- Reading order
- Not yet set
- Available as
- Format
- eBook
- Length
- 396 pages
- Published
- 20 Nov 2014
- Publisher
- Pan
- ISBN
- 978-1447265382
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Main Love InterestsPossible spoilers
About This Book
From one of the world's bestselling authors, Winter Garden is a moving, haunting and compelling novel illuminating the intricacy of mother-daughter bonds and the enduring links between past and present.
'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' – Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing
'Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction'
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her family and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and travelled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But these two estranged women come together at their father’s deathbed standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, to hear the one last promise he extracts from the women in his life.
It begins with a story like no other. A captivating, mysterious love story that spans sixty-five years and moves from war torn Leningrad in the 1940s to modern-day Alaska. The three women are brought together by a story so unexpected and extraordinary that when Meredith and Nina finally learn the secret of their mother’s past and uncover a truth so terrible, it will shake the very foundation of the family and who they think they are.
Praise for Kristin Hannah:
'Utterly absorbing' – Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & The Six
‘Powerful’ – Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library
Book Overview
- First published
- 27 Dec 2009
- Reading order
- Not yet set
- Available as
- Format
- Audiobook
- Length
- 14 hours 38 minutes
- Published
- 27 Dec 2009
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio
- Narration
- Solo narration
- Narrators
- Susan Ericksen
Trope TagsPossible spoilers
Warning TagsPossible spoilers
Main Love InterestsPossible spoilers
About This Book
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family business; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, these two estranged sisters will find themselves together again, standing alongside their disapproving mother, Anya, who even now offers no comfort to her daughters. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise: Anya will tell her daughters a story; it is one she began years ago and never finished. This time she will tell it all the way to the end.
The tale their mother tells them is unlike anything they’ve heard before—a captivating, mysterious love story that spans more than sixty years and moves from frozen, war-torn Leningrad to modern-day Alaska. Nina’s obsession to uncover the truth will send them all on an unexpected journey into their mother’s past, where they will discover a secret so shocking, it shakes the foundation of their family and changes who they believe they are.
Mesmerizing from beginning to end, Winter Garden is that rarest of novels — at once an epic love story and an intimate portrait of women poised at the crossroads of their lives. Evocative, lyrically written, and ultimately uplifting, it will haunt the listener long after the last word is spoken.
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