Winter Garden is a powerful and emotional family novel about love, loss, secrets, and the lasting connection between mothers and daughters. Kristin Hannah brings together the past and present in a story that spans generations, revealing how deeply family history can shape who we become.

Meredith and Nina Whitson are very different sisters. Meredith stays close to home, caring for her family and helping manage the family apple orchard, while Nina follows her passion for photography and travels the world. Despite their differences, the sisters return home when their father is seriously ill and find themselves facing their distant and disapproving mother, Anya.

Winter Garden unfolds through a mysterious story Anya is finally persuaded to tell her daughters. Her memories take them back to war-torn Leningrad during the 1940s, gradually revealing painful experiences and long-hidden secrets that have shaped their family for decades.