Bibliography
2005 Let me sing you gentle songs/ Astrid & Veronika
2008 Sonata for Miriam
2011 The Kindness of Your Nature
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2005 Let me sing you gentle songs/ Astrid & Veronika
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It is a freezing night in March when Veronika Bergman arrives from New Zealand at her rented house north of Stockholm. Bereft after the recent death of her fiancé, Veronika is looking for a place to recover. The house is unwelcoming and unfamiliar, but as the days progress she begins to make it her own. She quickly establishes a routine of rising early, turning on her laptop to work on her novel 'though the screen remains blank' and taking morning walks in the chilly, bleak grayness, until finally spring arrives, and with it, a life-changing encounter.
Astrid Mattson lives in the only house next door and is often described as 'the neighborhood witch'. Indeed, she is a solitary, old woman living in a decrepit house, haunted by her past. Yet when the young woman moves in next door, Astrid takes notice. She watches from her window as Veronika emerges for her daily walks, and when several days pass without Veronika's appearing, Astrid feels a newfound sense of concern. Surprising even herself, she goes over to Veronika's house and, finding the woman sick with fever, Astrid makes her pancakes and tea. From that day forward, neither of their lives will be the same. Rights sold to: New Zealand, Penguin Australia, Penguin US, Penguin Canada, Penguin UK, Penguin Spain, Salamandra Italy, Corbaccio Germany, Bertelsmann Netherlands, Archipel Poland, G + J Czech, Metafora Serbia, Okean Lithuania, Svajoniu Finland, Gummerus Sweden, Albert Bonnier Denmark, Aronsen Thailand, Silkroad Publishing China, Shanghai Wanyu Culture Taiwan, Solo Press Japan, Kodanscha Korea, Joongang books France, l'Archipel Russia, Azbooka |
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