Winter Garden: A moving and absorbing historical fiction from the bestselling author of The Four Winds

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From the Number One multi-million copy international bestselling author of THE FOUR WINDS and THE NIGHTINGALE. Winter Garden is a haunting and compelling novel illuminating the intricacy of mother-daughter bonds and the enduring links between past and present. 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 1940's 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. 'A tearjerker . . . a journey as lovely and haunting as a snow filled winter's night' People

Kristin Hannah is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels. She is a former lawyer turned writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle, and Hawaii. Her first novel published in the UK, Night Road, was one of eight books selected for the UK's 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read.

It's a tear-jerker, but the journey is as lovely - and haunting - as a snow filled winter's night * People * A gripping read * Booklist * Readers will find it hard not to laugh a little and cry a little more as mother and daughters reach out to each other just in the nick of time * Publishers Weekly * This tear-jerker weaves a convincing historical novel and contemporary family drama * Library Journal * Winter Garden is Kristin Hannah's best written and most deeply affecting novel yet * The Huffington Post * A master storyteller -- Delia Owens, Author of Where the Crawdads Sing Compelling. Moving. -- Karen Swan, Author of The Last Summer