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  • Published: 28 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780552168373
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $24.99

The Summer Of The Barshinskeys



An unforgettable story of two families, one English, the other Russian, who form a lifetime pattern of friendship, passion, hatred, and love.

'Although the story of the Barshinskeys, which became our story too, stretched over many summers and winters, that golden time of 1902 was when our strange involved relationship began, when our youthful longing for the exotic took a solid and restless hold upon us...'

It is at this enchanted moment that The Summer of the Barshinskeys begins.A beautifully told, compelling story that moves from a small Kentish village to London, and from war-torn St Petersburg to a Quaker relief unit in the Volga provinces, it is an unforgettable story of two families.

  • Published: 28 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780552168373
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Diane Pearson

Diane Pearson was born in London but spent a large part of her childhood with her grandparents in a village on the Surrey/Kent borders. She is the bestselling author of Csardas, The Summer of the Barshinskeys and Voices of Summer, is President of the Romantic Novelists' Association and is Senior Editor for Transworld Publishers. In 1994 she won the British Book Award for Editor of the Year. She now lives in London and is married to Richard Leech, the actor.

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Praise for The Summer Of The Barshinskeys

The Russian section is reminiscent of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, horrifying yet hauntingly beautiful

New York Tribune

An engrossing saga...she evokes rural England at the turn of the century with her sure and skilful touch

Barbara Taylor Bradford