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A former boss lends Sisse's family his cottage, and for two days life is good: they fish, eat new potatoes and dill out of the pan at breakfast, and nobody touches the bottles lined up by the shed. Then come 300 days that Sisse and her daughter Hertta spend locked away, separated. As a child Sisse longed for a mother who was never there and taught herself to bury shame deep; chance decided her life, and after meeting Renne she chose to have a baby. Hertta grew up where calm could crack at any moment, learning to count how long she had to distract everyone before Ake raised the frying pan.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

490 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland

First published

2014 by Gummerus

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9789512095117 (original)