Nina Laurin studied Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal. She arrived there when she was just twelve years old, and she speaks and reads in Russian, French, and English but writes her novels in English.
Laurin's novel include A Woman Alone, The Last Beautiful Girl, What My Sister Knew, and The Last Thing She Saw.
At The Strand Magazine the author tagged eight "ballet reads that helped me pull back the curtain of that mythical world." One title on the list:
Russian Winter by Daphne KalotayRead about the other books on the list.
A retired Russian ballerina sells her jewels, each one unveiling the secrets of her defection from the USSR—and what led her to such a dramatic leap of faith. At the same time, a middle-aged man is looking for his birth parents, a piece of amber jewelry his only clue. Russian Winter is part ballet, part historical fiction, part glittering mystery, and while it searches for a bit to find its true focus, it all comes beautifully together in the final act.
--Marshal Zeringue
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