THE PRIVATE GIRL (PRIVATFLICKAN
Evelyn Scala Schreiber
The First Part of the Circus Trilogy!
She is a wealthy bourgeois girl with her future laid out before her. He is an Austrian circus artist passing through. Two young people from different worlds. Three days that change everything.
Late 1870s. Bertha Lindberg lives with her family in a luxurious apartment in Östermalm, Stockholm, and the most important thing for Mr. Lindberg is to find a suitable husband for his daughter. But Bertha dreams of something else, something greater. She wants to be on stage.
One cold December evening, she meets Baptiste – and neither of them knows that their lives are changed forever.
This is a story about marginalization, freedom and sisterhood, about a woman who decided to sacrifice everything for love – and the circus.
The Private Girl is the first part of the Circus Trilogy, a series based on the author’s own family history.
481 pages
Rights
Germany: Blanvalet (PRH)
Sweden: Forum