A Blessed Child

This is the story of three sisters, with strong undercurrents of raw sensuality and violence. Erika has not set foot on Hammarsö, an island in Sweden, for twenty-five years, but now she goes back to visit her father. As girls, she and her half-sisters Laura and Molly spent every summer there, and other visitors came to the island too, among them Ragnar, a boy with a horn-like birthmark between his eyebrows. In the summer of 1979, when Erika turned fourteen, something happened that made her never want to return, until now. Separate lives are swept together into fragile, shifting groups in which almost anyone can end up on the outside, shunned and hunted.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

390 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, 1979

First published

2005 by Oktober

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9788249502073 (original)

9780307265470 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)

9780330447867 (Picador, United Kingdom)

9780307277817 (Anchor Books, United States)

9780330447874 (Picador, United Kingdom)