A Life in Fragments: Our Love, His Murder, My Resistance

A powerful and personal memoir that tells the real story behind the headlines of how two people got caught up in a struggle against Putin’s regime - one that continues today. The photo of Alexander Litvinenko lying on his deathbed in November 2006, poisoned by polonium, caused shockwaves around the world.But how did it come to this? And why are the lessons he provided still important now, twenty years on?In Marina Litvinenko’s compelling new memoir, A Life in Fragments, we find out exactly why and discover the inspirational personal story behind the public tragedy. Marina met the man who would change her life on her thirty-first birthday; she was a dancer while he was an agent in the Russian security services.They fell in love and soon had a son, Anatoly. But Russia in the 1990s was a difficult place in which to live a happy family life; soon, Alexander was uncovering corruption at the heart of the state in the aftermath of the communist era.His fearless investigations led to his arres