Helen Dunmore - The Siege

from The Author Archive Podcast · host David Freeman

This is a brilliant novel set in Leningrad in September 1941. It tells of love in a time of unimaginable hardship. The horrific reality of a siege is being played out again in the Middle East and Russian history is relevant to the war in Ukraine. Helen Dunmore was a major literary talent. Helen died of cancer in 2017.

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