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In the Month of the Midnight Sun
Cecilia Ekback
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Description for In the Month of the Midnight Sun
Paperback. From the acclaimed author of Wolf Winter comes a second brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic Noir thriller with all the intrigue and atmosphere of Burial Rites, the pent-up passion of The Piano and the suspense of The Tenderness of Wolves. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
'A gripping, beautifully written novel that I devoured in a day...as thrilling as it is fascinating' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites Sweden 1856. Blackasen Mountain: a distant place of rumour, superstition and now - murder. They say it was the Lapp who killed the three men. But something is not right. Ester knows it - but to help the settlers is to betray her people. Magnus feels it too. Sent by the Minister to survey the mountain, he cannot resist its mystery. And Lovisa: banished from the city by her father, travelling with her sister's husband, she is perhaps closest of them all to the wildness of the place. Three people, caught in the haunting light of the midnight sun.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444789973
SKU
9781444789973
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-21
About Cecilia Ekback
Cecilia Ekback was born in the north of Sweden; her parents come from Lapland. During her teens, she worked as a journalist and after university specialised in marketing. Over twenty years her work for a multinational took her to Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, the Middle East and the UK. In 2010, she finished a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She now lives in Calgary with her husband and twin daughters, 'returning home' to the landscape and the characters of her childhood in her writing. Her first novel, Wolf Winter, was published to great acclaim. You can find out more about Cecilia via her website www.ceciliaekback.com and you can follow her @CeciliaEkback on Twitter.
Reviews for In the Month of the Midnight Sun
Fans of The Miniaturist will love flashing back to the dark bleakness of 1717 Lapland in Cecilia Ekback's debut.
Grazia
A compelling, suspenseful story.
The Sunday Times
WOLF WINTER repays reading for the beauty of its prose, its strange compelling atmosphere and its tremendous evocation of the stark, dangerous, threatening place, which exists in the far north and in the hearts of all of us.
Guardian
Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended.
Lee Child Like a silent fall of snow; suddenly, the reader is enveloped... visually acute, skilfully written; it won't easily erase its tracks in the reader's mind.
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies Praise for Wolf Winter
:
With In the Month of the Midnight Sun, we're given more ambitious, literate Nordic Noir from Swede Cecilia Ekback (writing in English), who provides an elusive poetic feel not common in the genre. An orphaned boy and a privileged, rebellious young women are uneasy fellow travellers through the threatening perpetual daylight of the far north as they move towards a strange destiny. As in Wolf Winter, Ekback once again proves that she is in the very front rank of Scandinavian crime writers.
Independent
Ekback is a talented writer... this book is never less than absorbing.
The Times
Masterfully thrilling.
The Bookbag
The writing is atmospheric, vivid and compelling.
Choice magazine
A gripping, beautifully written novel that I devoured in a day. Cecilia Ekback has a tremendous feel for the landscape of the north, and her portrayal of the small community who live under the mountain of Blackasen, their suspicion of the outsiders who come amongst them, and the land's own power and hold over their lives and fates, is as thrilling as it is fascinating.
Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites Ekback...has a tremendous sense of place. Vividly conveying the desolation of the landscape in this haunting novel
The Sunday Times
Grazia
A compelling, suspenseful story.
The Sunday Times
WOLF WINTER repays reading for the beauty of its prose, its strange compelling atmosphere and its tremendous evocation of the stark, dangerous, threatening place, which exists in the far north and in the hearts of all of us.
Guardian
Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended.
Lee Child Like a silent fall of snow; suddenly, the reader is enveloped... visually acute, skilfully written; it won't easily erase its tracks in the reader's mind.
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies Praise for Wolf Winter
:
With In the Month of the Midnight Sun, we're given more ambitious, literate Nordic Noir from Swede Cecilia Ekback (writing in English), who provides an elusive poetic feel not common in the genre. An orphaned boy and a privileged, rebellious young women are uneasy fellow travellers through the threatening perpetual daylight of the far north as they move towards a strange destiny. As in Wolf Winter, Ekback once again proves that she is in the very front rank of Scandinavian crime writers.
Independent
Ekback is a talented writer... this book is never less than absorbing.
The Times
Masterfully thrilling.
The Bookbag
The writing is atmospheric, vivid and compelling.
Choice magazine
A gripping, beautifully written novel that I devoured in a day. Cecilia Ekback has a tremendous feel for the landscape of the north, and her portrayal of the small community who live under the mountain of Blackasen, their suspicion of the outsiders who come amongst them, and the land's own power and hold over their lives and fates, is as thrilling as it is fascinating.
Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites Ekback...has a tremendous sense of place. Vividly conveying the desolation of the landscape in this haunting novel
The Sunday Times