Confessions of a Falling Woman

Praise for 'The Madonnas of Leningrad': 'A luminescent debut!This is a novel that dares to be beautiful and fully succeeds.' Daily Mail 'A breathtaking novel. [Dean] has brought the siege of Leningrad to dramatic, desperate life.' Guardian 'An unforgettable story of love, survival and the power of imagination in the most tragic circumstances. Elegant and poetic, the rare kind of book that you want to keep but you have to share.' Isabel Allende '"The Madonnas of Leningrad" is an extraordinary debut, a deeply lovely novel that evokes with uncommon deftness the terrible, heartbreaking beauty that is life in wartime. Like the glorious ghosts of the paintings in the Hermitage that lie at the heart of the story, Dean's exquisite prose shimmers with a haunting glow, illuminating us to the notion that art itself is perhaps our most necessary nourishment. A superbly graceful novel.' Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times Bestselling author of 'Aloft'