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`Flatland has the gift that I most often covet in the work of other writers: the ability to make everyday events compelling … how the quietest existence can brim with urgency and drama´ Ann Morgan
`Helga Flatland writes with elegance and subtle humour´ Daily Express
`The author has been dubbed the Norwegian Anne Tyler and for good reason´ Good Housekeeping
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When Mathilde is forced to leave her teaching job in Oslo after her relationship with eighteen-year-old Jacob is exposed, she flees to the countryside for a more authentic life.
Her new home is a quiet cottage on the outskirts of a dairy farm run by Andres and Johs, whose hobbies include playing the fiddle and telling folktales – many of them about female rebellion and disobedience, and seeking justice, whatever it takes.
But beneath the apparently friendly and peaceful pastoral surface of life on the farm, something darker and more sinister starts to vibrate and, with Mathilde's arrival, cracks start appearing … everywhere.
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Praise for Helga Flatland
`The most beautiful, elegant writing I've read in a long time´ Joanna Cannon
`Helga Flatland writes with such astuteness about families´ Prima
`I absolutely loved its quiet, insightful generosity´ Claire King
`So perceptive and clever´ Rónán Hession
`Thoughtful and reflective´ Observer
`A beautifully written, bittersweet, moving and poignant … a wise novel of great insight´ NB Magazine
`Poignant and beautifully written … The prose and style, with the dialogue enveloped in the narrative, is intimate, evocative and moving´ Kristin Gleeson
`I love the sophistication, directness and tenderness of this book´ Claire Dyer
`The most satisfying book that I've read in a long time … masterful´ Sara Taylor
`A moving and exquisite read´ Shelan Rodger
Helga Flatland
Helga Flatland is already one of Norway’s most awarded and widely read authors. Born in Telemark, Norway, in 1984, she made her literary debut in 2010 with the novel Stay If You Can, Leave If You Must, for which she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas’ First Book Prize. She has written four novels and a children’s book and has won several other literary awards. Her fifth novel, A Modern Family (her first English translation), was published to wide acclaim in Norway in August 2017, and was a number-one bestseller. The rights have subsequently been sold across Europe and the novel has sold more than 100,000 copies. One Last Time was published in 2020 and is currently topping bestseller lists in Norway
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