Soviet milk - 25

This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual.

The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor.

But then state steps in. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter.

Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases.

Will she and her daughter be able to return to Riga when political change begins to stir?