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Kristen Loesch grew up in San Francisco and Seattle. She holds a Master’s degree in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she also completed not-quite-half of a PhD.
Her work has been longlisted for the 2019 Bath Novel Award and shortlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award 2020. The Porcelain Doll is her first story publication.
Recently signed with Zeitgeist Agency, she lives in the USA with her husband and their three children.
In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land … … Rosie lived peacefully in Moscow and her mother told her fairy tales. One summer night, all that came abruptly to an end when her father and sister were gunned down. Now, Rosie’s only inheritance from her reclusive mother is a notebook full of eerie, handwritten tales, but there is another story lurking between the lines. Currently studying at Oxford University, Rosie has a fiance who knows nothing of her former life. Desperate for answers to the questions that have tormented her, Rosie returns to her homeland and uncovers a devastating family history which spans the 1917 Revolution, the siege of Leningrad, Stalin’s purges and beyond. At the heart of those answers stands a young noblewoman, Tonya, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions reverberate across the century …