{"product_id":"the-siege-9780241952191","title":"The Siege","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children's author and poet. She published twelve novels including \u003ci\u003eZennor in Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the McKitterick Prize; \u003ci\u003eBurning Bright; A Spell of Winter, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; \u003ci\u003eTalking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; \u003ci\u003eMourning Ruby \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHouse of Orphans. \u003c\/i\u003eShe was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection \u003ci\u003eInside the Wave.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better * Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eUtterly 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 *\u003cbr\u003eLiterary 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable parable of human survival against the odds * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eIn this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eA 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 *\u003cbr\u003eAn important as well as a thrilling work of art * Independent on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eA moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eA harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better -- Rachel Cusk * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eUtterly 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 *\u003cbr\u003eLiterary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there -- Richard Overy * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable parable of human survival against the odds * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eIn this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eA 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 *\u003cbr\u003eAn important as well as a thrilling work of art * Independent on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eA moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful * Daily Mail *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733367435607,"sku":"9780241952191","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241952191.jpg?v=1719999947","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-siege-9780241952191","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}