Winter Garden

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Women and The Nightingale, 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 and their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, come together at their father's deathbed 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. One so unexpected and extraordinary that, when Meredith and Nina finally learn the secrets of their mother's past, they will uncover a truth so terrible that it will shake the very foundations 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 'A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival' - Kate Morton, author of Homecoming 'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' - Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry

Kristin Hannah is an award-winning international number one bestseller with more than 25 million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her novels include, most recently, The Women (which topped the Sunday Times bestseller chart), The Four Winds and The Great Alone. The Nightingale is the winner of numerous best fiction awards and is soon to become a major movie, and Kristin's much-loved earlier novel Firefly Lane, was a number one blockbuster series on Netflix. Kristin's writing has taken readers across multiple eras and to many places, but the thing that connects all of her work is the focus on what it's like being a woman in challenging times. Kristin is a lawyer-turned-writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle.