Parallel Lives : A Love Story from a Lost Continent - Iain Pears Hardback and preservation

and preservation

the suspense is unreal

both conscious and unconscious

Hannah becomes convinced that her encounter with Mrs Pearcey holds the key to the story behind the headlines

Parallel Lives : A Love Story from a Lost Continent - Iain Pears Hardback and preservationThis is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward. Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from a noble family who survived the siege of Leningrad by eating cats' tails and being evacuated over the ice. Francis was the grandson of an Iraqi Jew, forever