A historical novel about magnificent forests and wuthering love.
The year is 1949 when Siv once again takes work as a cook in a forest cabin in the deep forests of northern Sweden. Life as a housewife is lonely, and she finds friendship in Märta, a young cook whom Siv is mentoring. But secrets resurface and threaten to change everything – for both Siv and her family.
In present-day in the small community Djupsele in northern Sweden, Eva struggles with her teenage son Vilgot, whose passion for the forest biodiversity puts them on a collision course. Amid logging conflicts and a threatened cultural heritage, Eva discovers how her own story is intertwined with the timeless power of the forest landscape.
Pale Soil is the second part of a series of novels where women take center stage in the narrative of the magnificent Swedish forest and the conflicts surrounding it.
Rights
Denmark: Alpha
Finland: Otava
France: Buchet Chastel
Germany: Gutkind
Netherlands: Uitgeverij Mozaïek
Norway: Aschehoug
Sweden: Romanus & Selling