Books by Iain Pears

4. Iain Pears, Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent .  A delightful story/indirect memoir, telling the tale of the lives and marriage of Frances Haskell, the British art historian, and Larissa Salmina Haskell, a Russian woman who survived the siege of Leningrad as a girl.  Pears had the full cooperation of Larissa, at an age where she doesn’t give a damn any more.  This story truly comes to life, and that is helped by Pears’s background as a writer of very good fiction.