Parallel Lives : A Love Story from a Lost Continent - Iain Pears Hardback `Jesse has produced the cookbook

`Jesse has produced the cookbook that I wish I could have written

Hannah becomes convinced that her encounter with Mrs Pearcey holds the key to the story behind the headlines

it marks a turning point for Kaoru

and preservation

Parallel Lives : A Love Story from a Lost Continent - Iain Pears Hardback `Jesse has produced the cookbookThis is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward. Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from a noble family who survived the siege of Leningrad by eating cats' tails and being evacuated over the ice. Francis was the grandson of an Iraqi Jew, forever