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Tomas has booked Easter for the family at the fine resort hotel in Järvsö, and Maj knows she should be enjoying it with him and the teenagers, Anita and Lasse, if only she were not so giddy. She makes an effort to chat with the other holiday guests, yet when the hotel's beautician applies a mask to her face she has to fight her tears. Is this simply growing older? Is it fear for her husband's struggling business and whether he can stay off drink, frustration with Lasse's slack final school year, or Anita's retreat into novels and cinema? Meanwhile the 1950s are giving way to a new decade, old buildings in the Ångermanland town are coming down, and Maj's settled world begins to tilt. The closing volume of a trilogy, it portrays a family adapting as modern Sweden takes shape around them.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

553 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, 1950s–1960s

Series

Maj, book 3

First published

2014 by Norstedts

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789113059723 (original)

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