Winter Garden (paperback)

Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and travelled the world to become a famous photo journalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, these two estranged women will find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. On his deathbed, their father extracts one last promise from the women in his life.

It begins with a story that is unlike anything the sisters have heard before - a captivating, mysterious love story that spans sixty-five years and moves from frozen, war-torn Leningrad to modern-day Alaska. The vividly imagined tale brings these three women together in a way that none of them could have expected. Meredith and Nina will finally learn the secret of their mother's past and uncover a truth so terrible it will shake the foundations of their family and change who they think they are.

Mesmerizing from the first page to last, Winter Garden is an evocative, heart-breaking novel that navigates the enduring links between past and present and the layered landscape of the human heart.

'Winter Garden is Kristin Hannah's best and most deeply affecting novel yet' Huffington Post

'It's a tear-jerker, but the journey is as lovely - and as haunting - as a snow-filled winter's night' People Magazine