MEMORY KEEPER OF KYIV

2022 paperback from the bestseller charts first time discounted. In the 1930s, Stalin's activists marched across the Soviet Union in the first step in creating a man-made famine that, in Ukraine, stole almost four million lives. Inspired by the history the world forgot, author Erin Litteken reimagines their story. In 1929 Katya is 16 years old, surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When Stalin's men arrive in her village it's just a few, a little pressure to join the collective, but soon neighbours disappear and those who speak out are never seen again. Resistance has a price and survival seems more a dream than a possibility, but even in the darkest times, love beckons. 70 years later, a young widow finds her grandmother's journal, one that will reveal the long-buried secrets of her family's haunted past. This is a novel that shines an unflinching light on historical atrocities while at the same time celebrating the resilience of the human spirit. 338pp,