House of Orphans
$24.99
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2007
Summary
Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland’s freedom and force its people into submission.
Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent away to a country orphanage, and then employed as servant to a widowed doctor, Thomas Eklund. Slowly, Thomas falls in love with Eeva … but she has committed herself long ago to a boy from her childhood, Lauri, wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141015026 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141015020 |
| Author: | Helen Dunmore |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Outstanding, a sheer pleasure to read. Dunmore is a remarkable storyteller
Outstanding, a sheer pleasure to read. Dunmore is a remarkable storyteller * Daily Mail *Part love story, part tragedy … Dunmore on dazzling form. Everyone should read her work * Independent on Sunday *Every character is richly drawn and makes for compelling reading … top-quality fiction * Daily Express *Richly ambitious . . . there isn’t a dull page. A remarkable achievement * Scotsman *Extraordinary … combines a luminous delicacy of observation with raw emotional power to haunting effect * Sunday Telegraph *Vivid and exciting … Dunmore creates a beautiful sense of stillness … she conveys a passion for Finland’s icy landscape * Observer *Beautifully written … a story about us all * Evening Standard *
About The Author
Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children’s author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection Inside the Wave.
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