Winter Garden. Hannah K.

Meredith and Nina Witson are sisters, but it is difficult to find women more dissimilar. One is a homebirth, always believed that there was no better fate than to get married, raise children and manage a family apple kennel. The other dreamed of wanderings, became a photographer covering humanitarian disasters, and wounds around the world, avoiding conversations about the future and family. Father's illness takes sisters together in the parental house. From their mother with Russian roots, they never saw anything but icy disapproval, and even now Anya is not trying to get closer to her daughters, showing a well -known detachment.

In childhood, only one thing united them with the mother: a fairy tale about the poor girl and the prince, whom she told the girls at night. Understanding that he is dying, the father asks her daughters to listen to a fairy tale - until the very end. Thus begins the journey of two women into the past of her mother, in her life in the besieged Leningrad, in a terrible and beautiful icy world.