Writer Helen Dunmore is perhaps best known for her critically and commercially popular book The Siege, and as the winner of the 1996 inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction.
Her ninth novel, House Of Orphans, is published this week. The book is set in Finland at the turn of the last century, and finds the country in a state of industrial, urban and political upheaval. The story centres on Eeva, a girl sent from a city orphanage to perform domestic work for a country doctor, who lives alone following his wife’s death.
Jenni talks with Helen Dunmore about the book and her personal connections to Finland, its landscape and people.
House Of Orphans, published by Fig Tree ISBN 0-670-91451-7
