Equal parts war epic, family saga, and love story, Lost Souls of Leningrad brings to vivid life this little-known chapter of World War II in a tale of two remarkable women—grandmother and granddaughter—separated by years and experience but of one heart in their devotion to each other and the men they love. Neither the oppression of Stalin nor the brutality of Hitler can destroy their courage, compassion, or will in this testament to resilience

I was looking forward to this book because it would focus on what it was like to live in Stalin’s Russia. However, I did not really care for the characters. They seemed emotionally distant, and I could not connect with them. I also found the writing to be very stilted. Nevertheless, I did like the historical details in the novel. I recommend this for fans of The Last Russian Doll!

Lovely historical novel written from the Russo perspective about WW2. It follows the lives and lives of a Russian family in Leningrad and gives an insight into the suffering, the food poverty, the cold of just surviving in that time. Well written & excellently descriptive.

The events surrounding the Siege of Leningrad have always been intriguing to me. Not very many fictional writers have attempted to tackle the subject. There are a few brutal telling's that have stuck with me over the years (Helen Dunmore's the Siege comes to mind). Suzanne Parry's attempt isn't horrible. There are moments when the story is compelling. She steers away from delving deeply into some of the more gruesome aspects. Her descriptions of Leningrad are somewhat flat, I don't feel like she was ever there painting a picture for me. The most compelling part was the reconvening of the Leningrad philharmonic at the end to play an orchestra written by a survivor about the siege. I had meant to look up whether or not that actually happened. It certainly feels like a propaganda strategy that's realistic.

The story comes to a rather neat conclusion for all the main characters, which took away from the authenticity of the story overall. But that said, it was ok.

Rating 4.5 stars, rounded to 5.

This book tells the story of Sofya, a widowed violinist, and her granddaughter, Yelena, as they struggle to survive the siege of Leningrad in 1941. At the same time, the men they love are fighting against the enemy on the outskirts of the city.

This novel is heavily researched, but the historical facts are woven seamlessly into the narrative. The characters are lovable, and the reader is bound to feel invested in their well-being. This is what provides interest and tension in the story. We know that the siege is eventually lifted, but untold numbers of people died, so the question becomes: Will these characters survive? And will their relationships with each other remain intact?

The events of the siege are described in unflinching detail, which some may call gratuitous, but readers who are seeking authenticity and who wish to develop an emotional understanding of the time period will appreciate it.

A common (and arguably necessary) element of historical fiction is to offer the reader a sense of hope. No matter how a novel ends, the harsh realities that are shared in the telling can be so heavy that readers would be turned off of the genre if authors didn’t share inspiration and hope within the pages. The characters in this book suffer terrible losses and they by no means emerge unscathed, but that sense of hope is also present, which reminds the reader of our human ability to persevere despite extreme suffering.

Lost Souls of Leningrad is a rare historical novel in that it focuses on the Russian experience in World War II particularly the brutal siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) which lasted for nearly 900 days and claimed the lives of 800,000 civilians. It's a heartbreaking story of love, family, courage, and incredible endurance set amidst the despair and brutality of war.

The novel opens early in 1941 with the residents of Leningrad living under the opression of Stalin but feeling mostly safe from the war in Europe. The story is focused primarily on Sofya, a concert violinist, and her teenage granddaughter, Yelena (Lena), who live with Yelena's parents in the city. Early in 1941, Sofya's son is arrested and taken to a work camp after an accusation that he is not loyal to the Communist Party. In June 1941, Hitler's army invades the Soviet Union in defiance of a non-aggression pact and Yelena's mother leaves as a volunteer but Sofya and Yelena stay behind in the city. By September, Hitler's armies surround the city, cut off the food supply and launch a brutal campaign of artillery bombardment with the intent of destroying the city by starving the residents to death. In addition to the perspectives of Sofya and Lena, there are also two men on the outskirts of the city who are central to the narrative - Lena's boyfriend, Pavel, a volunteer working to get supplies into the city via the Road of Life and Vasili, Sofya's great love, who is an Admiral in the Soviet navy defending his homeland against the Nazis.

Lost Souls of Leningrad is a character-driven novel which focuses on the personal experience of the people of Leningrad rather than the military aspects of the siege with sometimes difficult to read details of the horror that the civilians in Leningrad faced during the siege - the scarcity of food, water, power and how it forced desperate people into brutal acts in order to survive particularly during the long, cold winter of 1941-2. This is a well-written and well-researched novel by a scholar of Russian history who is a former European security specialist who studied Russian in Moscow and worked at the Pentagon where she helped negotiate the first security agreement of the Gorbachev era. I had only a superficial understanding of the Siege of Leningrad and this novel filled in many gaps in my knowledge of the brutality faced by the Russian people during WWII.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.

The blurb about this caught my attention and had me interested. Needless to say I was sucked in. I loved this book so much. It was very well wrote and so easy to get attached to the characters

Lost Souls of Leningrad is a rare novel about the Russian civilian experience of World War II. Even rarer, its primary protagonist — and the character through whose eyes this experience is filtered — is a late-middle aged woman, a widow. (I am not a fan of romantic WWII novels that involve beautiful young women who all wear red lipstick, have perfectly coiffed hair, and fabulous clothes in the middle of wartime. Hello? Rations? I mean, COME ON.)

Parry’s novel possesses a more realistic portrayal of wartime. Its setting is Russia, a nation besieged by Nazis. There is a tightrope tension, drawn even tauter by dwindling supplies of food and medicine. Lost Souls of Leningrad does not romanticize war; events and experiences that other novels paint in sepia tone, Parry swathes in a more authentic grey. The sense of loss, a grieving for the world that was, is palpable in Lost Souls of Leningrad in a way that makes it refreshing as a novel of WWII.

The story revolves around an aging, widowed violinist and her teenaged granddaughter. But the novel is not about them alone. Lost Souls of Leningrad is a landscape of a European city at war. Parry reveals to the reader the swift and terrible death and decay of an urban place and its people when the trappings of civilization are ripped off by war. Food and the lack of it, water and the lack of it, the stench and the unavoidable abundance of it. Fear from all the dark corners, lives cast into darkness in the absence of street lights, electricity, law and order. The other characters are Russian soldiers, mothers, wives, and orphaned children. All of them are the lost souls of the title, each of them has lost something, whether a loved one or a parent, or simply their sense of security in ordered society that they once had, even if imperfect. Loss and grief, not only as a result of war, but through political upheaval, are themes that imbue the book. The novel draws a line between the time before and the time after, the time of war, and afterwards, even when war is over, there remains a division of before and after.

While the novel does not romanticize war, there are romantic threads in its storylines. There is love in this novel in various forms: nurturing and mothering love, parental love, innocent and childish love, romantic love, the kind of love that is weathered by life. While a defeating hopelessness pervades the novel (it is war, after all), there is also an uplift via its characters’ resilience. This strength manifests in many forms but most prominently through love and kindness.

As a historical fiction, it portrays a more social version of history than a military or political one. Readers should not expect dates or events, but an overall texture of life in wartime Russia. This is not a historical fiction that relies heavily on the facts of history, though the timeline of events does follow authentically in line with actual history; this is a novel about the human experience of war, lived and sensed through the skin, the eyes, the nose, the tongue.

This a beautifully written novel about surviving loss of different kinds and the love we need to do so.

Lost Souls of Leningrad was an engaging and riveting read. Beforehand, I really didn’t know much at all about the Russian experience of World War II, but this book was eye-opening. I loved the characters; they seemed to breathe and leap off the page. A beautiful, sometimes heart-breaking, story. Thank you to NetGalley and She Writes Press for the advance copy.

With all of the WWII historical fiction on the market right now, there’s still a definite lack of material about the European Eastern front. The siege of Leningrad was devastating. The supply lines to the city were completely cut, and it’s inhabitants were slowly starved and frozen to death.

Lost Souls of Leningrad provides an interesting and engaging lens into this world, and focuses on Sofya and her granddaughter Yelena as they fight for their survival amidst the destruction of their home. Although I enjoyed the family drama, I felt like the books skewed too much in this direction, and wanted a bit more of the history and how completely catastrophic the siege was for Leningrad and it’s residents.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC.

Set in Leningrad in 1941 and 1942, harrowing and heartbreaking Lost Souls of Leningrad is a Historical Fiction book that goes deeper than most, right into the heart and bones. The history is incredibly well researched and narrated in such a way that it feels as though the author experienced the atrocities herself. Talk about skilful writing!

We often read about Nazi-occupied countries and the Holocaust from that perspective but this...this is so different. We read from a Russian point of view of Nazi Germany's attack and Stalin's response, severely oppressing his own people to the point of death. It is impossible to fathom the relentless bombardment of evil from the enemy and from neighbours, government, everyone, day and night with no escape or peace. But random acts of kindness saved lives.

Sofya is a middle-aged violinist who plays at the Philharmonic Hall, delighting audiences and bringing joy in the midst of despair. Her son Aleksandr gets taken away by the dreaded secret police...anyone even remotely linked to the resistance was sorely punished. Sofya and her teen granddaughter Yelena (Lena) soon end up alone in their horrifying new world and survival becomes critical for the poor and wealthy. Food is more valuable than fine furniture (used for firewood) and jewelry. What people ate then for sustenance is heartbreaking. Nothing could be done with dead bodies. People did not dare to leave their homes except to queue for meagre rations and scrounge for food. The ration book story almost did me in.

Sofya met Vasili when they were both married. Their love for each other endured until both spouses were gone. Vasili's elite position allowed Sofya and Lena to gather more food than most. But they experienced heartache and grimness every single day. Millions of people slowly died. No one knew whether they'd see loved ones who had been whisked away ever again.

Historical Fiction fans who desire to get lost in a very realistic portrayal of Nazism and Stalin's brand of Communism in Leningrad in WWII, this book is an absolute must.

My sincere thank you to She Writes Press and NetGalley for the privilege of reading this gorgeously-written and unforgettable horrific story, parts of which are based on facts. It moved me.

A moving, well-researched account of Leningrad during WWII.

This was such a compelling novel, with plenty of action - something happened on every page and I didn't want to stop reading. At times the characters felt a bit remote, we were told how they felt but it didn't always leap off the page, which was a shame, but a minor point when compared to the story as a whole. This is, of course, a very tragic story but it also has flashes of hope and the ending is upbeat and optimistic.

I really enjoyed this one, it was good to read about a part of history that gets less attention in the fictional world. I think you will enjoy this even if you aren't a huge fan of WWII fiction. It reminded me a lot of Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman and I'd recommend it to fans of Mark Sullivan's The Last Green Valley too. Overall a solid 4☆ and I'd definitely read more from Suzanne Parry.

Thanks to the publishers She Writes Press and Netgalley for kindly providing me with an advance release copy. All opinions are my own.

This is a dark, sad novel set during the siege of Leningrad (formerly and once again St. Petersburg) during 1941-1942. If you know anything about that time period, you know what's to come. If you don't, be prepared for a bleak story. The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany are at war, and Leningrad is vulnerable.

The Soviet Union controls the media so the people don't know the truth until it's too late. While this is set eighty years ago, some things haven't changed. Lives could have been saved - thousands of them - if the truth had been known. Something to remember these days with a world that wants to silence voices that disagree with certain viewpoints.

In the Soviet Union, people are arrested and imprisoned on rumor and false witness. Everyone has to be careful of their words, their books, their home decor. Religion, free thinking, and especially disparaging the government is forbidden. It's a dangerous place to be, even for those who follow the Party line. One never knows who Stalin will find threatening.

As the blockade and attacks by the Nazis continue, civilization devolves. People focus on their own survival to the detriment of others, including their own children.

Our main characters - a concert violinist and her granddaughter - are trying to survive as best they can. These are likeable characters with a gripping story. My only quibble is the pace moves so quickly that it's hard to establish an emotional connection with them.

This is an interesting story, and a viewpoint of World War II that hasn't been shown often. Many of the incidents that happen are real.

Not family friendly due to profanity, violence, non-graphic sex, and adult subject matter. I would suggest looking up these incidents specific to Leningrad if you are unsure of how you will react to some of the events.

Suzanne Parry has gained a new follower with Lost Souls of Leningrad. This is a heart-wrenching story involving Sofya, a widowed musician, and her granddaughter Lena as they struggle to eke out an existence in Leningrad during WWII as the Nazis surround the city.

I love historical fiction—especially WWII historical fiction— but had never come across a book centered on the effects of the war on Russia. The characters and plot were exceptional. Parry handled the gravity of the circumstances of the war beautifully. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to NetGalley, Suzanne Parry, and She Writes Press for an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

In "The Lost Souls of Leningrad," we follow a grandmother-granddaughter duo, Sofya and Yelena, as they face the Nazi Army's siege of Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of the world under brutal conditions, they have to lean on each other to survive. Suzanne Parry does a great job of giving a historically accurate portrayal of what the people of Leningrad had to suffer during the war.

As someone who had many family members fight for the Soviet Army in WWII, this book hits particularly close to home for me. Stalin's cruel impositions on the Russian people, alongside the Germans' incessant drive to conquer Russia, resulted in over 20 million lives lost - an incomprehensible number. While Parry successfully evokes the brutality of the war on the Russian front, I felt the story to be lacking a bit in both character and plot development. The pacing felt off for much of the book, like we were being thrown from one historical event to the next. The character's thoughts are spelled out so much that the reader doesn't need to make any inferences as to how people feel, drawing away from the illusion of "compelling characters." Still, I think this was a good attempt at fusing historical knowledge with fictional sub-plots.

Lost Souls of Leningrad by Suzanne Parry was one of the best historical fiction books about World War II that I have ever read. This book deserves every one of these glimmering five stars. If I could have handed out more stars I would have.

The all encompassing and brutal siege of Leningrad was the backdrop for The Lost Souls of Leningrad by Suzanne Parry. Despite the fact that Germany had signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union two years earlier, Hitler was determined to launch a surprise invasion of the Soviet Union. In 1941, Hitler and the German army completely surrounded and cut the city of Leningrad off from the rest of the world. Leningrad was the hub for Russia’s Baltic Fleet and it housed hundreds of factories. It was Hitler’s goal to starve the people of Leningrad and totally put an to its existence by artillery bombardments from the air. The most serious problems that Leningrad faced, as a result of Hitler’s actions, was a lack of food since all roads leading into the city of Leningrad had been cut off. Soon German bombs destroyed its power plants and the people of Leningrad were forced to live without heat, electricity and water, even during the harsh and frigid winter. The relentless bombings caused destruction, fires and fear. Lost Souls of Leningrad delved into the little known history of Leningrad’s fate during World War II.

Lost Souls of Leningrad followed several characters and through them the ordeals that Leningrad experienced were portrayed. Sofya was a widowed woman who was an accomplished musician. She played the violin in the Leningrad Philharmonic. Sofya was one of just a very few women allowed to play in the Leningrad Philharmonic. She held a first violin chair. Sofya grew up in a privileged family and had gotten her musical training in Paris. Yolena (Lena) was Sofya’s teenage granddaughter. She was Sofya’s son’s and daughter-in-law’s only child. Yolena and her parents shared Sofya’s apartment with her. Yolena and Sofya had a very close and loving relationship. Vasili and Sofya had a strong romantic connection. They met at a dinner party years ago and were immediately drawn to one another. Vasili had recently married and Sofya was engaged to be married. They fell in love and had planned to annul their marriages but then Visili’s wife got pregnant and the two agreed to end things. Years later, both Visili’s and Sofya’s spouses had died and they rekindled their relationship. They had never stopped loving one another despite their circumstances. Visili was a Naval officer in Russia’s Royal Navy and had taught naval cadets during his wife’s long illness so he could help with her care. Pavil was a schoolmate of Yelena. The two formed a beautiful friendship that blossomed into love. Pavel enlisted in the Red Army when the Germans began their descent upon the Soviet Union. He started by repairing machines and working on the mechanical problems in vehicles. Later in the war, as all accessible roads and railways were targeted and made impassable by the German army to the people of Leningrad, Pavil bravely and tirelessly transported first food and then evacuees across “The Ice Road”, Lake Ladoga, which offered the only route left into and out of Leningrad. Pavil courageously drove his truck across the frozen lake to get food into the city. He was one of the most diligent workers in his company. Pavil made more trips across the Ice Road than anyone else. He was the first to start and the last to leave.

Shortly before the siege of Leningrad began, Stalin and his five year plans and purges still instilled fear in all. One day, a loud banging was heard on the door of Sofya’s apartment. Stalin’s men had come to take Major Aleksandr Karavayev, Sofya’s only son and father to Yolena, away for a crime he had not committed. Sofya went to Bolshoi Dom, the home of the NKVD, to get information about her son and to find out what his fate would be. She learned that Aleksandr had been transported to a labor camp for ten years. As a result of Aleksandr’s arrest, Aleksandr’s wife, Katya, was stripped of her position on the radio committee and of her party membership. Katya’s job had been for her to go door to door and take away all existing radios. She installed receivers so that the Communist party could control the things its citizens heard on Radio Leningrad, the only radio station that was allowed. Then in 1941, the rumors about Germany invading Russia became real. Katya, Yolena’s mother, volunteered for the Volunteer Corps to help fight the Germans. Sofya lost her seat in the Leningrad Philharmonic and was demoted to playing in The Radio Committee Orchestra which was a second tier orchestra. Sofya was just glad to be able to keep playing her violin. Vasili committed once again to Sofya, was issued orders by Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, the Commissioner of the Navy and the highest ranking Naval officer, to take a naval command. As soon as the ice melted enough, Visili would be commissioned to defend the Baltic and his homeland against the Germans.

As the siege became a reality, bombs were dropped on schools, hospitals and food markets. The city of Leningrad became the target for Germany’s persistent bombings. Hitler did not discriminate about what should be bombed. The bombs were plentiful and destructive. Yolena had been volunteering in the youth movement. She was asked to help transport young children out of Leningrad to safety. She did not want to leave her grandmother but she was given no choice. Sofya was glad Yolena would be away from Leningrad and would be able to get more food and be safer. Yolena was responsible for some of the youngest children. The children were being evacuated without their parents. The children and Yolena boarded the train. As the train got close to its destination, bombs began to fall on the train. Yolena ordered her charges to hide under the seats of the train. So many children died that day. Yolena was able to get sixteen children away from the train and into the safety of the forest. That trauma stayed with Yolena for years. She refused to travel by train ever again. Nightmares of that day haunted her sleep. Yolena’s heroic acts were recognized and praised. From that point on, Yolena and Sofya remained in the crumbling city. Evacuation was not possible with Yolena’s trauma and refusal to take a train. Life for Sofya and Yolena became harder and harder.

Sofya and Yolena both suffered immensely from the food rationing. Hitler’s goal was to starve the people of Leningrad and he was succeeding. The citizens of Leningrad were only allowed 125 grams of bread a day. Since there was a shortage of flour, other ingredients like sawdust became one of the staple main ingredients for the bread. All around them people were dying from starvation. Some very desperate and food deprived people even resulted in scavenging body parts from the dead who were left on the streets. Cannibalism, although not widespread and rampant, was present. Fortunately for Sofya and Yolena, both Visili and Pavil were able to get them much needed food and supplies when things became quite difficult. Members of the military received greater amounts of food than the citizens of Leningrad. Even in war, the caste system was evident. Along with worrying where Sofya and Yolena would find food, they constantly worried about Aleksandr’s safety as well as Vasili’s and Pavil’s safety and well being. It was a constant worry for both Sofya and Yolena. During the long winter months, both Sofya and Yolena were forced to wear every piece of clothing they had to stay warm. Bombs had annihilated the power grid for the city. There was no heat, water or electricity. They managed to find a portable stove to burn wood in. When wood and furniture became scarce books were used. These two brave women supported each other and fought to survive all the atrocities Hitler was inflicting upon them and their city.

Lost Souls of Leningrad by Suzanne Parry was a heartbreaking story about love and survival. It spoke of the courage, compassion, resilience, love, faith, hope, despair and the brutalities of war both grandmother and granddaughter faced together. This was a debut novel for Suzanne Parry. There were so many unsettling similarities in this book to what the Ukrainian people are experiencing today. How sad that some humans have learned nothing from their own tragic history and insist upon inflicting many of the same atrocities on the innocent Ukrainian people! The characters in Lost Souls of Leningrad were engaging and memorable. I find myself still thinking about them. The author, Suzanne Parry, has acquired a vast amount of knowledge about Russia’s history. She spent some time studying in Moscow and through authentic conversations with people that lived there she was able to gain a real understanding of what it was like for the people of Leningrad during the siege. Suzanne Parry is a masterful storyteller and really painted a vivid yet disturbing picture of the starvation, desperation, abundant deaths, freezing temperatures and lack of electricity and running water that existed throughout Leningrad in her debut novel, Lost Souls of Leningrad. I immediately became invested in both the characters and the storyline. It was hard to put this book down. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to She Writes Press for allowing me to read this ARC of Lost Souls of Leningrad by Suzanne Parry through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Publication is set for November 8, 2022.

The narration seriously didn't work for me. Too much info-dumping, too much telling and way too little showing. It made it har for me to connect with the characters or the plot.

This novel details the survival story of two women, concert violinist Sofya and her grandadughter Yelena during the WWII siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Yelena's father has been imprisoned and her mother has left to join the volunteer corps. Sofya and Yelena must support each other to get through the horrible deprivations caused by bombings, famine and cold, relying on their relationship and their hopes of being reunited with their loves to make it through. An emotional story of resilience, survival and bravery.

A really interesting historical novel looking at World War Two in Russia. It was well written with a compelling and sometimes heartbreaking story am=nd well developed characters. This book was even mpre poignant when you think of the current war. A good read.

This is a historical novel set in Russia during the German invasion in WW2. The story revolves around Sofiya, her granddaughter, Yelena, Yelena’s boyfriend, Pavel and Sofiya’s lover, Admiral Vasili. It’s a rich novel, with strong, likeable characters, detailed descriptions building each scene and set against actual historical events. It’s a page turner - a heartbreaking tale of the brutality of war and what it takes to survive, of resilience and hope and romantic love.

It was impossible not to think of the current war in the Ukraine when reading some of the scenes about air raids, displacement and food shortages. All too real.

I have to mention that Sofiya and the Admiral share a great love of books. And who isn't going to love a character that loves books!

'𝚂𝚘𝚏𝚢𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎, 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚘𝚍. 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚛. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚊 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚍𝚘𝚣𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜. 𝚃𝚘 𝚂𝚘𝚏𝚢𝚊, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚞𝚖𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢.'