A love story between Oliver, an English news-reporter, and Tatiana, a widowed Ukrainian villager, during the development of, and subsequent unfolding of the Holodomor, or "killing by hunger" by the Soviet Union during the 1930's in Ukraine.

karen lesley is 51 years old and loves trees. She also enjoys 19 century Russian literature, detective novels and running hard core hills.
She has written five full length novels and two collection of short stories and is interested in the darker aspects of human history.