Under a Blood Red Sky
Kate Furnivall2008

At its heart is an intense love story. But it is also driven by the powerful bonds of friendship between two young women, Sofia and Anna.

They are imprisoned in Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia 1933. When Anna falls gravely ill, Sofia makes a promise to escape the camp and find Vasily, Anna’s childhood love. Her perilous search takes her to a remote Urals village where she discovers a web of secrecy and lies, but also bonds of courage and loyalty – and an overwhelming love that threatens her promise to Anna.

As Stalin’s fist squeezes ever tighter, Sofia is tantalisingly close to freedom, family – even a future. All that stands in her way is the secret that could endanger everything...

Titre original : Under a Blood Red Sky (2008)