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Helen Dunmore is the author of "Zennor in Darkness", which won the McKitterick Prize and "A Spell of Winter", which won the Orange Prize.

About the Author

Helen Dunmore has published six novels with Viking and Penguin: ZENNOR IN DARKNESS, which won the McKitterick Prize; BURNING BRIGHT; A SPELL OF WINTER, which won the Orange Prize; TALKING TO DEAD; YOUR BLUE-EYED BOY; and WITH YOUR HEART CROOKED HEART. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer; her two collections of short stories, LOVE OF FAT MEN and ICE CREAM, are also published by Viking and Penguin. She lives in Bristol.

Reviews

A Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully
*Sunday Telegraph*

Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better
*Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph*

Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel
*Antony Beevor, The Times*

Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there
*Sunday Telegraph*

A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds
*Mail on Sunday*

In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece
*Independent*

A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time
*Sunday Express*

An important as well as a thrilling work of art
*Independent on Sunday*

A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful
*Daily Mail*

A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive
*Sunday Times*

Only an author like Dunmore, with a poet's sensibility and the talent to take historicals beyond the saga, could craft a novel about the siege of Leningrad. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

A Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully * Sunday Telegraph *
Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better * Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph *
Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel * Antony Beevor, The Times *
Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there * Sunday Telegraph *
A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds * Mail on Sunday *
In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece * Independent *
A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time * Sunday Express *
An important as well as a thrilling work of art * Independent on Sunday *
A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful * Daily Mail *
A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive * Sunday Times *