Many of Paullinas novels have reached international bestseller lists in countries including Australia and New Zealand. Her dream was put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture.Īfter graduating from university and after various jobs including working as a financial journalist and as a translator Paullina wrote her first novel Tully. She has since written Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross, (also known as Tatiana and Alexander) The Summer Garden and The Girl in Times Square. Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known. Growing up in Russia Paullina dreamt of someday becoming a writer. Two GRAND PRIZE winners will win the entire 5 book signed set.

At the age of ten her family immigrated to the United States. Paullina Simons has generously given us TWO SIGNED SETS of her 5 books in the series including two prequels: the series prequels are Bellagrand and Children of Liberty, the series is The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander and The Summer Garden. Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1963. What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love? There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. For Tatiana, love arrives in the guise of Alexander, who harbours a deadly and extraordinary secret. As the German armies advance their future looks bleak. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana’s family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it.Ĭonfronted on the one hand by Hitler’s vast war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world.Audiobook Length: 11 hours and 15 minutesĭuring the summer of 1941 the Metanov family are living a hard life in Leningrad. The family suffers as Hitler’s army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in.

On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg.

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