A Spell of Winter
Author: Helen Dunmore
Bestselling author Helen Dunmore’s third novel, A Spell of Winter won the 1996 Orange Prize. Catherine and her brother, Rob, don’t know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather – ‘the man from nowhere’ – they create a refuge against their family’s dark secrets, and against the outside world as it moves t….Read More
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