Swallow for Thumbelina

The bibliography of Vera Koluchkova includes more than 40 novels, many of which have already been adapted for screen. The love for the author is quite understandable, as she writes about ordinary people striving for a better life and fighting... for their own happiness. Simple and sensitive, engaging and romantic, Koluchkova's novels touch a nerve, making readers empathize and rejoice for the characters as if they are acquaintances. Seventeen-year-old Dasha realizes she is pregnant too late... Her mother, fearing to compromise her husband, a deputy, with her daughter's inconvenient pregnancy, sends her from St. Petersburg to a small town in the Urals to live with her grandmother. Here, by family decision, Dasha is to give birth and hand over the baby to a childless couple. In the new school, the girl meets a young single mother, Natalia, whose example prompts Dasha to go against her parents' will and take responsibility for her own fate.