Meredith and Nina Whitson are sisters, but it would be hard to find women more different. One is a homebody who has always believed that there is no better fate than to get married, raise children and run the family apple orchard. The other dreamed of traveling, became a photojournalist covering humanitarian disasters and travels around the world, avoiding conversations about the future and family. Their father's illness brings the sisters together in their parents' house. From their mother, who has Russian roots, they have never seen anything but icy disapproval, and even now Anya does not try to get closer to her daughters, displaying the detachment they are all too familiar with. In childhood, only one thing united them with their mother: a fairy tale about a poor girl and a prince, which she told the girls at night. Realizing that he is dying, the father asks his daughters to listen to the rest of the story - to the very end. Thus begins the journey of two women into their mother's past, into her life in besieged Leningrad, into a terrible and beautiful icy world.
Author: Kristin Hannah
Translation: Ismagilova Kamilla
Year of issue: 2023
Publisher: Phantom Press
Pages: 416
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 220x152x26 mm
ISBN: 978-5-86471-926-8