- Published: 17 July 2002
- ISBN: 9780141924977
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
The Siege
- Published: 17 July 2002
- ISBN: 9780141924977
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
A Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully
Sunday Telegraph
Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better
Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph
Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel
Antony Beevor, The Times
Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there
Sunday Telegraph
A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds
Mail on Sunday
In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece
Independent
A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time
Sunday Express
An important as well as a thrilling work of art
Independent on Sunday
A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful
Daily Mail
A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive
Sunday Times