About The Night Sparrow
Coming spring 2025
Determined to seek revenge for her family, murdered in the Minsk ghetto, Elena enrolls in the Central Women’s Sniper Training School in 1942. Eight months later, she’s part of an all-girls sniper platoon on the eastern front. Soon, she’s ashamed of her low tally of kills. Then, she’s injured, re-deployed as an interpreter, and entangled in a secret hunt for the most evil fascist of all.
About Shelly
Shelly Sanders is the author of The Night Sparrow, coming spring, 2025 from HarperCollins, as well as the Canadian bestseller Daughters of the Occupation, and several other historical fiction novels. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in English Literature and Ryerson University with a graduate degree in journalism.
Her work is inspired by her Russian Jewish ancestry, and she is especially drawn to untold stories about little-known women who defy expectations.
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Daughters of the Occupation “vividly recreates the nerve-wracking fear and carnage of wartime Riga, as well as the city’s feeling of grim paranoia during the late Soviet period.”
–Kirkus, Starred Review
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Nina Petrova was 48 years old when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, far beyond the age of conscription. Yet Nina, who’d raised her daughter on her own and was now a grandmother, clearly considered age as insignificant when it came to combat. She joined the Red Army as a sniper of the 284th Infantry Regiment and, with years of working as a shooting…
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