House of Orphans

Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finlands 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 Helsinkis turmoil of resistance to Russian rule.

Categories: Literary Fiction