Winter Garden
Winter Garden From the author of the bestsellers "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. Full description
Winter Garden From the author of the bestsellers "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. Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781250042354 (1250042356)
Publish date: May 7th 2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Winter Garden is not the first Kristin Hannah book I've read, and sadly it wasn't my favorite. Based on reviews many readers have loved this book, so if you think it's your type of story then give it a shot. The upside: I enjoyed most of the 'fairy tale' part of the book. I wasn't at all familiar ...
I'm done. I'm not reviewing this. It got better toward the end, thank God. But my thoughts on this are that I have enough mommy issues in real life. I certainly don't need to add someone else's. I still wanted to throat punch people by the end, but not as badly. Still, too many mommy issues.
A fabulous book, very moving.
Four stars, five stars, I'm not sure what to rate this. I think it's four and a half stars. Winter Garden is basically broken into two stories. The "present day" story (that's really 2000/2001) is filled with some seriously frustrating people. It's hard to understand why Meredith responds (or doesn'...
An emotionally gripping, heart tugging and powerful story with multiple relationships about love and the choices we make. I cried a few times throughout. Meredith and Nina. at their fathers death bed. promise to listen to their estranged mothers 'fairy tale' about war-torn Leningrad under Stalin's...