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The Text we will be studying this term is 'The Siege' by Helen Dunmore. It is a book set in Second world War Russia in the city of Leningrad and covers such themes as human survival and mankind's determination and adaptability to survive.

Editions for The Siege: 0802139582 (Paperback published in 2002), (Kindle Edition), 0141000732 (Paperback published in 2002), 0241952190 (Paperback publi.

Internationally-acclaimed author Helen Dunmore follows her bestselling novel, The Siege, with a riveting and emotionally absorbing portrait of post-war Soviet Russia, a world of violence and terror, where the severest acts of betrayal can come from the most trusted allies. In 1952 Leningrad, Andrei, a young doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar.

The story of one family caught up in the struggle to survive the Siege of Leningrad in 1942. Read by Sara Kestelman.

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About Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore is the author of fourteen novels. Her first, Zennor in Darkness, explored the events which led to D H Lawrence’s expulsion from Cornwall (on suspicion of spying) during the First World War. It won the McKitter-ick Prize. Her third novel, A Spell of Winter, won the inaugural Orange Prize, now the Bailey’s.

Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was the second of four children, her father the eldest of twelve. As she said herself “In a large family you hear a great many stories,” a grounding which influenced her career as a writer of both poetry and fiction.

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Writers reviewed: Helen Dunmore. Judy Cox. Helen Dunmore is not as overtly political as many of the women writers whose roots lie in the women's liberation movement of the late 1960s, such as Margaret Atwood and Fay Weldon. However, Helen Dunmore's novels have two enormous strengths. One is the outstandingly poetic quality of her writing. She.

Helen Dunmore is equally celebrated and successful as a poet, novelist, short-story writer, and children’s author. From her first poetry volume The Apple Fall (1983) to her novel Counting the Stars (2008), her writing has been distinguished by its rich vein of imagery depicting the natural world, food and bodily pleasures, combining poetic intensity with compelling storytelling.

Called -elegantly, starkly beautiful- by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental -- the Nazis' 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed six hundred thousand -- but her focus is heartrendingly intimate. One family, the Levins, fights to stay alive in their small apartment, held together by the unlikely courage and resourcefulness of.

Author Helen Dunmore was born on December 12, 1952 (in Beverley, Yorkshire) and died on June 5, 2017 (in Bristol, England) at the age of 64 of cancer. She was the second of four kids, and her father was the oldest of a dozen kids. Because she was a part of a giant family, she heard a lot of stories, not to mention the fact that the stories have.