Soovituskirjad

A thought-provoking romance novel for anyone who has worked abroad or is planning to go there, and for those who are worried about their elderly, sick parents. In her first novel, “Letters of Recommendation,” Merle Sild writes about the difficult choices of an unemployed woman with a university degree in modern-day Estonia. As the foreign job market opens up, the main character Mari Kullerkupp also goes with the flow. Over the course of five years, Mari travels from the safety of Finland to a small town in Northern England that is hostile to immigrants and works there in a nursing home for demented psychochronic patients with other women recruited from Estonia. The cosmopolitan city of London, to which Mari flees at the first opportunity, simultaneously evokes dreams of both a city center art gallery and a lonely country cottage in the middle of the quiet forests of Estonia. When a professor with Alzheimer’s needs a caregiver, Mari accepts the offer. Life in a peaceful seaside resort town gives her time to think about her crumbling marriage. One beautiful day before Christmas, classmate Birgit Anderson sends her an email that, to both of their surprise, changes Mari's life forever...