The Winter Guest
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00GMNZ1IA
Publish date: September 6th 2014
Publisher: Mira
Edition language: English
The Winter Guest by Pam Jenoff is set during World War II in a small, rural village in Poland. It is ostensibly a story one family's struggle – twin sisters Helena and Ruth and their three younger siblings. What the book becomes, is a story of two sisters – their love and their rivalry. The story of...
This book had a lot of good things going for it and reminded me a lot of The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult in a good way. The tension between Helena and Ruth, the twin sisters at the heart of the story, really ramped up the drama and kept the story moving, when it might have otherwise bogged down.One ...
WWII was still going on, and Poland was suffering along with all the European countries as families struggled to survive. Helena and Ruth were left in charge of their three younger siblings since their father was killed by a runaway wagon and their mother was put in the hospital. Both girls were h...
The book is written in a way that doesn't make it exciting or interesting, thing are just happening, slowly. Helena and Ruth are twin sister from a small village in Poland during the WWII. With their mother hospitalized they had to start taking care of their three younger siblings. The war is gett...
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