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Helen Dunmore

Biography

Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore is the author of 12 books, including THE GREATCOAT; THE BETRAYAL, a New York Times Editors' Choice; THE SIEGE, a bestseller and finalist for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; and A SPELL OF WINTER, winner of the Orange Prize.

Helen Dunmore

Books by Helen Dunmore

A Spell of Winter
by Helen Dunmore - Fiction, Literary Fiction

Disturbing love and underlying horror govern the hermetic world of this Gothic novel set in early twentieth-century England. Catherine and Rob Allen, siblings two years apart, grow up in a world of shameful secrets. Their mother abandons them when they are young, and their father dies after being institutionalized. The children live with their grandfather in a crumbling country estate accompanied by their dependable maid, Kate, and a malicious tutor, Miss Gallagher. Together they forge a passionate refuge for themselves while the world outside moves to the brink of war.

Your Blue-Eyed Boy
by Helen Dunmore
Talking to the Dead
by Helen Dunmore