Skönheten

Laura, nearly sixty, has always seen herself as rational, until she meets Bertil again on the underground. Years ago she tutored him in English ahead of his marriage in London; he was younger than her and strikingly good-looking. Now he has lost his wife, his home and his footing. They start seeing each other and her old feelings seem, partly, to be shared, and soon they live together, though secrets and past injuries mount. Alluding to Ovid's Metamorphoses and Shakespeare's sonnets, the novel is about change, especially growing old in a culture that looks away from it, and about what a fixation on beauty does to an ageing woman.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

257 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2026 by Norstedts

Author's age

70 when first published

ISBN

9789113139371 (original)