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Kat Gordon - Swell, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Swell

The captivating, beautifully atmospheric Iceland-set dual-timeline mystery

Av Kat Gordon

Del i serien Manilla Press

130 kr

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Beskrivning
'A page-turning mystery. Spellbinding' Anya Bergman'Captivating. A deeply satisfying, deftly woven novel of female power and resistance' Anna Hope'Addictive and twisty' Liza KlaussmanTwo sisters. A shipwreck. A story demanding to be told . . .Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm two sisters - Freyja and Gudrún - rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm.Sixty-five years later, a young woman - Sigga - is spending time with her grandmother when they learn a body has been discovered on a mountainside near Reykjavik, perfectly preserved in ice.Moving between the turn of the 20th century and the 1970s as a dark mystery is unravelled, The Swell is a spellbinding, beautifully atmospheric read, rich in Icelandic myth.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-01-22
  • Mått: 130 x 214 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 242 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Manilla Press
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: Bonnier Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781786585110
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Kat Gordon grew up in London, a short distance from Charles Dickens's house on Doughty Street. Great Expectations has always been one of her favourite books, and at Oxford she studied and fell in love with his others. After graduating, she worked briefly at Time Out, as a gymnastics coach and an HIV counsellor before publishing her first novel, The Artificial Anatomy of Parks. Her second novel, An Unsuitable Woman, was picked by Richard and Judy for their Book Club. Having lived in Reykjavik, her third novel, The Swell, was set in Iceland. Her novels have been translated into multiple languages. She is currently settled in London with her partner, their son, and two cats but no hedgehog.

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Spellbinding. Entranced by dark, icy, mythical Iceland and captivated by two generations of women and their struggle for agency, I could not put The Swell down. Evocative and heartbreaking, this is a story of sisterhood, with a page-turning mystery at the heart of the novel.

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