Let me sing you gentle songs / Linda Olsson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2005.Description: 267 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780143020288
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Stack Room | Stack Room | OLS | 1 | Available | T00449219 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A stunning first novel that was to become an international bestseller.
Veronika, a writer in her early thirties, rents a house in the Swedish countryside to finish her novel. She is also cocooning herself from her past. She befriends Astrid, a reclusive older woman who has lived in the village all her life. Olsson leads us through the flowering of their unusual and tender friendship, as they slowly and carefully reveal their life histories and sometimes heart-rending pasts.
The Swedish landscape is always a powerful presence and measures the progress of the women's relationship; as the icy winter and bare trees give way to spring and then summer, the women's friendship deepens.
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New Zealand author.
"In a wintry landscape in the Swedish countryside, the paths of two women cross. One bleak March evening Veronika, a young writer, arrives in a small village in pursuit of stillness and solitude to enable her to come to terms with grief and loss, and to complete a novel. Her arrival is silently observed by Astrid, her elderly, reclusive neighbour, who in the safety of her home guards dark family secrets and personal tragedy. As the icy winter gives way to spring, the two women are drawn together. Against a backdrop of changing seasons, they embark on a tender and unusual friendship. What happens will change the lives of both women for ever." --Publisher description.
Also published as 'Astrid and Veronika'
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