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Winterland, Rae Meadows

eng

Adult

fiction

Winterland

Rae Meadows

Soviet Union, 1973. There is perhaps no greater honour for a young girl than to be chosen for the famed USSR gymnastics program. When eight-year-old Anya is selected, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago, her mother disappeared without a trace, leaving Anya's father devastated and their lives dark and quiet in the bitter cold of Siberia. Anya's only confidant is her neighbour, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years imprisoned in a Gulag camp - and who, unbeknownst to Anya, was also her mother's confidant and might hold the key to her disappearance. As Anya rises through the ranks of competitive gymnastics, and as other girls fall from grace, she soon comes to realise that there is very little margin of error for anyone and so much to lose

adult