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Spoken entirely by Eliisa, a fragile young mother long ill with depression, the book draws on an actual case. From outside her life looks enviable: a riverside home, two little ones and a devoted husband, Asko, who drives around the Porvoo area fixing pipes and is greying before his time. Before a planned family holiday he asks her to look over the household books. She already knows what they hold: overdue loan payments, shop credit, card bills, his firm's debts, unpaid school photos and now a notice from the debt collector. Wanting to shield those she loves, she says nothing, and she has not forgotten the shotgun that was once stowed in a bin bag in the house and never mentioned again.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

117 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland

First published

2006 by Tammi

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9789513137175 (original)