by Jan Degrass (Author)

In 1941 Anna Borisovna Leonova's life in Leningrad is shattered: her mother is accused of treason and her father hastily evacuates her from the city before the German enemy surrounds it. With the help of a cheeky boy, a handsome truck driver and her own persistence, she returns over

the ice road of Lake Ladoga to search for her mother in the besieged city that has no heat, no light, no food, little water and where citizens are

dying of starvation.

Luckily, she has a plan...