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The Siege

The Siege

by HelenDunmore (Author)

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 06 Jun 2002
ISBN 10: 0141009594
ISBN 13: 9780141009599
Book Overview: Helen Dunmore is the author of Zennor in Darkness , which won the McKitterick Prize and A Spell of Winter , which won the Orange Prize.

Media 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 *