The Christening
- 296 pages
- 11 hours of reading
In 1973 in Estonia, 17-year-old Piret Anvelt gives her illegitimate daughter, Maarja, to her cousin Helena, who emigrates to a new life in Sweden. It is not until 1992 that Maarja, now 20 and herself unmarried and pregnant, brings her two mothers together. By the author of The Love of Women.