The Girl in the Water (Next Year's Snow 1) by Joseph Howse (Author) , Janet Howse (Illustrator)
Audiobook narrated by Annette Chown.
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Four teenagers and a feral cat navigate life in Gorbachev’s USSR, in this tragicomedy set against a backdrop of civilizations in decline. The Girl in the Water has launched the award-winning series Next Year’s Snow, a multigenerational saga about innocence, survival, oppression, and choice at the flashpoints of a madly fractured world.
Review: https://www.printedwordreviews.com/bookreviews/9780995287853

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The Circus and the Atom (Next Year's Snow 2) by Joseph Howse (Author) , Janet Howse (Illustrator)
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New Year 1988/1989: A theatre student, a taxi driver, a partisan, and a crook join a detective's family in Kiev for an ill-fated reunion. They and the Soviet nation face a violent reckoning as old secrets and fugitive hopes emerge.
Review: https://www.printedwordreviews.com/bookreviews/9781738788613