Winter Garden Book Summary. But instead of leaving london for. A russian refugee's terrible secret overshadows her family life.
Winter garden is the story of family dynamics and family dysfunction. Anya and her daughters prove that to us in this excellent book. A russian refugee's terrible secret overshadows her family life.
A russian refugee’s terrible secret overshadows her family life.
Meredith is the perfect daughter, the one who stayed near home to enter the family business, learning the patient art of raising apple trees from her father, using her own business sense to expand the orchards’ sales from apples to grapes to local. So when he tells his wife he’s going on a fishing holiday, she takes his word for it. When anya, meredith and nina watch the man carving the totem pole in alaska in memory of his deceased son, meredith realizes that anya’s fairytale has served the same function as this man’s sculpture. Anya saw her daughters as merely incidental to her grateful love for their father evan, who rescued her from a.