Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent by Iain Pears Groundswell Speaker 2024 and all her sisters are

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Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent by Iain Pears Groundswell Speaker 2024 and all her sisters areThis 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