'This is a book about dying, so it's realistic and it's sad. But it's also, I hope you'll find, joyous. Because both Hel and Helen find out who they are, who they're meant to be, and how it is that you live life to the very fullest' Sally Magnusson, Radio 2 Book ClubBestselling author, journalist and broadcaster Sally Magnusson has written several books for adults and children, most recently her Sunday Times bestseller Where Memories Go (2014) about her mother's dementia, The Sealwoman's Gift (2018), her acclaimed debut novel, The Ninth Child (2020) and Music in the Dark (2022). Sally lives outside Glasgow.

Magnusson is superb at evoking a landscape rich in history and prehistory, although the novel's greatest strength is her feminist interpretation of Norse mythology in a story that centres equally on Hel and Helen, both of whom are daughters wounded by "fathers whom they still, in the last winter of their own lives, struggles to forgive".

'This is a book about dying, so it's realistic and it's sad. But it's also, I hope you'll find, joyous. Because both Hel and Helen find out who they are, who they're meant to be, and how it is that you live life to the very fullest' Sally Magnusson, Radio 2 Book ClubBestselling author, journalist and broadcaster Sally Magnusson has written several books for adults and children, most recently her Sunday Times bestseller Where Memories Go (2014) about her mother's dementia, The Sealwoman's Gift (2018), her acclaimed debut novel, The Ninth Child (2020) and Music in the Dark (2022). Sally lives outside Glasgow.

Magnusson is superb at evoking a landscape rich in history and prehistory, although the novel's greatest strength is her feminist interpretation of Norse mythology in a story that centres equally on Hel and Helen, both of whom are daughters wounded by "fathers whom they still, in the last winter of their own lives, struggles to forgive".

'This is a book about dying, so it's realistic and it's sad. But it's also, I hope you'll find, joyous. Because both Hel and Helen find out who they are, who they're meant to be, and how it is that you live life to the very fullest' Sally Magnusson, Radio 2 Book ClubBestselling author, journalist and broadcaster Sally Magnusson has written several books for adults and children, most recently her Sunday Times bestseller Where Memories Go (2014) about her mother's dementia, The Sealwoman's Gift (2018), her acclaimed debut novel, The Ninth Child (2020) and Music in the Dark (2022). Sally lives outside Glasgow.

Magnusson is superb at evoking a landscape rich in history and prehistory, although the novel's greatest strength is her feminist interpretation of Norse mythology in a story that centres equally on Hel and Helen, both of whom are daughters wounded by "fathers whom they still, in the last winter of their own lives, struggles to forgive".