Winter Garden

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From the author of the smash hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past.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 traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters As children, the only connection between them was the Russian fairy tale Anya sometimes told the girls at night On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise from the women in his life the fairy tale will be told one last time and all the way to the end Thus begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anya s life in war torn Leningrad, than five decades ago Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother s life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are. Free Download [ Winter Garden ] Author [ Kristin Hannah ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr FULL REVIEW NOW POSTED WOW WOW WOW Winter Garden was one of the most breathtaking books that I have ever read in my entire life And I do not say that lightly I cried so hard I couldn t even see the pages The emotions were overpowering and all consuming It also has THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EPILOGUE of all time The only other books that has made me cry this hard before has been The Bronze Horseman which is my favorite book in the world My God, THE FEELS What began as a fam FULL REVIEW NOW POSTED WOW WOW WOW Winter Garden was one of the most breathtaking books that I have ever read in my entire life And I do not say that lightly I cried so hard I couldn t even see the pages The emotions were overpowering and all consuming It also has THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EPILOGUE of all time The only other books that has made me cry this hard before has been The Bronze Horseman which is my favorite book in the world My God, THE FEELS What began as a family mystery turned into an EPIC story of love and survival.I rarely give this rating, but this was 6 STARS Vera, he says, making her look at him What You stay alive Promise me The three of you will make ...Once again, I find myself in awe of the power and beauty of Kristin Hannah s words She gives her readers the ability to crawl inside the story and see the world through the eyes of her characters It s her stunning gift for capturing the heart wrenching and emotional aspect of every connection that left me completely enad with this family Every single one of them By the time I reached the end of the story, I was nowhere near ready to let them go There are people everywhere that find them Once again, I find myself in awe of the power and beauty of Kristin Hannah s words She gives her readers the ability to crawl inside the story and see the world through the eyes of her ch...One of the best books I ve ever read Period The five star rating that this book deserves no, demands makes me question all of my other books that I had given a five star rating A five star rating should really be elusive, hard to achieve But sometimes, when you are in the grip of a good book, you get a little fast and loose with your ratings Well, I m guilty of it from time to time I am officially admitting that,My Name is Crumb, and I m a Five Star Rating JunkieThis book has One of the best books I ve ever read Period The five star rating that t...Be patient during the first half, it gets very good and emotional the second half This is written in the past and present tense, which is a common scenario in many novels, but one that I enjoy It s like reading two different novels.What starts as a dysfunctional domestic situation between 2 sisters American born and their Russian born mother ends up being so muchGrief and a deathbed promise brings these unhappy women reluctantly together, and what seemed like a familial dysfunction be Be patient during the first half, it gets very good and emotional the second half This is written in the past and present tense, which is a common scenario in many novels, but one that I enjoy It s like reading two different novels.What starts as a dysfunctional domestic situation between 2 sisters American born and their Russian born mother ends up being so muchGrief and a deathbed promise brings these unhappy women reluctantly together, and what seemed like a familial dysfunction becomes an intimate look at war torn Leningrad and the atrocity of war One cannot fathom the pain, hunger, starvation and death all around the survivors, the terror of small children being taken by train away from their parents, starving, cold and afraid Very moving, and well written In the present day story t...Meredith and Nina spent their whole lives without really knowing their mother Anya Any attempts they tried to make to get close to her were rebuffed, so they gave up trying and began to believe that maybe their mother just didn t really care about them very much When their father dies though he makes them promise to try to get to know their mother, and says that now that he will be gone their mother needs them The story follows Meredith, Nina, and Anya as they get to know one another and grow Meredith and Nina spent their whole lives without really knowing their mother Anya Any attempts they tried to make to get close to her were rebuffed, so they gave up trying and began to believe that maybe their mother just didn t really care about them very much When their father dies though he makes them promise to try to get to know their mother, and says that now that he will be gone their mother needs them The story fol...Just finished this stinker and I have a headache from rolling my eyes It is disappointingly formulaic and borrows heavily from Sophie s Choice , an infinitely superior novel The writing is pedestrian The characters are cardboard cut outs and insufferable to boot I hate novels in which all the characters have to be beautiful We are told over and over and over about the mother s astonishing eyes and the eldest daughter s curvy hips , big eyes and Julia Robert s type mouth The younger d Just finished this stinker and I have a headache from rolling my eyes It is disappointingly formulaic and borrows heavily from Sophie s Choice , an infinitely superior novel The writing is pedestrian The characters are cardboard cut outs and insufferable to boot I hate novels in which all the characters have to be beautiful We are told over and over and over about the mother s astonishing eyes and the eldest daughter s curvy hips , big eyes and Julia Robert s type mouth The younger daughter a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, yet has a heart shaped face, black pixie haircut and perfect skin The male characters are uniformly handsome and blond For no discernible reason, the reader is constantly subjected to descriptions of what the characters are wearing, e.g., She exchanged her robe and pajamas for a pair of comfortable jeans and a cable knit turtle neck sweater The character s musings are repeated and restated and reworded every few pages This stuff goes on and on I cannot st...Excellent heartfelt story about the troubled dynamics of the mother daughter bond and the relationship between two sisters Sisters Meredith and Nina couldn t bedifferent from one another, and have difficulty bridging the gap to find common ground Their Russian born mother, Anya, however, has always been cold and distant and the girls have felt unloved, affecting each of them in different ways Their fragile bond is further threatened after the death of their father, who was the glue that Excellent heartfelt story about the troubled dynamics of the mother daughter bond and the relationship between two sisters Sisters Meredith and Nina couldn t bedifferent from one another, and have difficulty bridging the gap to find common ground Their Russian born mother, Anya, however, has always been cold and distant and the girls have felt unloved, affecting each of them in different ways Their fragile bond is further threatened after the death of their father, who was the glue that held them all together But the girls made a promise to their dying father and they gradually begin to draw the truth out of their mother through the fairy tale she s been telling for years, but never finished it to the end Alternating chapters...5 This book starts off slow It is a story of relationships mother and two daughters, Meredith and Nina, and the two daughters who have a strained relationship Their father, Evan has held the family together, making up for his wife not being able to show affection for her two daughters But he has had a severe heart attack and is dying In one last attempt to heal the emotional gulf between his wife and children, he asks his wife to tell them the fairy tale of the...Some themes are close to me notably stories that deal with mothers and daughters or families in general That is a theme also dear to Kristin Hannah, from what I read of her books and especially in Winter GardenThey would always be a family, but if she learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn t a static thing There were always changes going on Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and ...I started off lost in the sculpted brushes and the apple trees of the deep rooted, lush coulee with one of my Traveling Sisters reading Winter Garden We spent some time bundled up in blankets as twoof our TS joined in reading and discussing this one with us Winter Garden is a well layered, intriguing and powerful family saga that explores the complicate...

Winter Garden
  • English
  • 06 October 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 394 pages
  • 0312364121
  • Kristin Hannah
  • Winter Garden