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House of orphans / Helen Dunmore.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Fig Tree, 2007.Description: 329 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141015026(tradepbk)
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Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Castlecliff Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection DUN 1 Available T00505607
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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, who is now caught up in Helsinki's turmoil of resistance to Russian rule.

Set in dangerous, unfamiliar times which strangely echo our own, the story reveals how terrorism lies hidden within ordinary life, as rulers struggle to hold on to power. House of Orphans is a rich, brilliant story of love, history and change.

Originally published: 2006.

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