![]() There were family sagas too in A Spell of Winter and Talking to the Dead. She brought us to Leningrad during and after the Second World War in The Siegeand The Betrayal, threw us into the heart of the Cold War in Exposure, and offered a contemporary take on the horror story in the chilling The Greatcoat. Helen’s fiction was always surprising and although a reader can identify themes and preoccupations that recur throughout her books, she never wrote the same novel twice. ![]() There is no shortage of World War I fiction but Helen captured the desolation and trauma of a soldier with a sensitivity and insight to which all writers aspire but few capture. ![]() The first novel of hers that I read was Mourning Ruby in 2003 and from then on I was a committed fan. ![]() I never had the good fortune to meet Helen Dunmore but, as is often the case with the writers one most admires, I feel I got to know her through her books. ![]()
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