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A NORN IN BLOOM
A SWEDISH SINGLE MOTHER AND HER BIRACIAL DAUGHTER CONFRONT FAMILY SECRETS WHEN THEIR LIVES INTERSECT WITH A WEALTHY AMERICAN SOCIALITE.
"Paints a picture of scenery so beautiful that readers will almost feel the wind on their skin ... A story with a lot of heart." -Kirkus Reviews
Linn Holmgren's surprise pregnancy at nineteen shocked her insular home island of Nornö and upended her life. Adrift, she finds escape through alcohol and questionable men, leaving her mother Agnes to take primary responsibility for raising her daughter, Zoë.
Now eighteen, Zoë has never met her father. Desperate to know her true self, she secretly searches for him.
When Camilla Gunnarsson Easton, former model turned Manhattan socialite, moves into an inherited property on Nornö, Zoë and Linn are pulled into her sophisticated orbit. After Zoë forms an unlikely friendship with Camilla's son, they begin a journey of self-discovery-defying long-held expectations, exposing secrets, and shaking the bonds of trust within their families.
Interweaving Zoë and Linn's perspectives, A Norn in Bloom explores the complexity of mother-daughter relationships, the enduring search for one's identity, and how the desire to belong and connect knows no bounds.
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SOMMAREN PÅ NORNÖ
2021 (Norstedts)
EN SOMMAR, TVÅ FAMILJER, ETT ÖDE SKRIVET I RUNORNA
Artonåriga Zoë Holmgren har levt hela sitt liv på den mytomspunna ön Nornö i Stockholms skärgård. Tillsammans med sin struliga mamma Linn och sin mormor Agnes driver Zoë öns handelsbod som Holmgrens gjort i generationer. Med en haitisk-amerikansk pappa, som hon aldrig träffat, har Zoë alltid stått ut från mängden. Trots Linns motstånd börjar Zoë i smyg göra efterforskningar. Hennes högsta önskan är att hitta honom.
Vanligtvis händer inte mycket på Nornö, men när Camilla Easton, utlandssvensk, före detta modell och numera Manhattanbo, anländer till sin nybyggda sommarbostad, ställs Zoës och Linns tillvaro på ända. De dras direkt till familjen Eastons sofistikerade och till synes perfekta liv. Men snart inser de att de inte är ensamma om att ha saker att dölja.
Sommaren på Nornö handlar om ursprung, identitet och om komplicerade mor-dotter-relationer. Och om hur skuld kan påverka våra liv mer än vi tror.
LAGGING INDICATORS
2018
What happens when your career is your entire identity and it's suddenly taken away from you?
It's October 2009 and thirty-five-year-old Mia Lewis is an independent woman at the top of her game. Sharp, attractive and the only senior female executive at Atlas Capital, she survived Wall Street during the worst financial crisis in modern history. Devoted to her job, Mia always fights for what she thinks is best for the firm--until one false move ushers her spectacular downfall.
Disgraced and broke, she escapes to a crumbling cottage in upstate New York to repair her reputation and plot her comeback. Alone and threatened by lasting unemployment, she risks becoming what she has always feared: a failure. But a chance encounter with a handsome single dad ignites feelings and a sense of longing that Mia had intentionally buried.
As she begins to consider a new life--one away from the stress and excess of Wall Street--the past comes calling, jeopardizing her whole future.
UPTOWN AND DOWN
2005 (Penguin/NAL)
Nora Deschamps is an editor at a chic women's fashion magazine. Her husband Jeff Montgomery owns an independent record label that's edging into a mega-bucks hip-hop phenomenon. Tracked as one of New York Magazine's "25 Most Exciting Couples Under Forty," Nora and Jeff appear to have it all. But their future is about to be shaken, by Nora's on-the-rise career that's taking an intimate toll on their lives, by a crime that Jeff is powerless to prevent, and ultimately by the secret of a long-ago indiscretion and the revenge that now threatens all they've strived to achieve. From the uptown high-life to the downside of love, betrayal, and long-standing lies, Nora and Jeff must now fight harder than ever to learn the meaning of trust.