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Winterland, a novel, Rae Meadows

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Winterland

Rae Meadows

a novel

Soviet Union, 1973. There is perhaps no greater honour for a young girl than to be chosen for the famed USSR gymnastics program. When eight-year-old Anya is selected, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago, her mother disappeared without a trace. Anya's only confidant is her neighbour, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years imprisoned in a Gulag camp - and who, unbeknownst to Anya, might hold the key to her disappearance. As Anya rises through the ranks of competitive gymnastics, and as other girls fall from grace, she soon comes to realise that there is little margin of error and so much to lose

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