WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS (OM MORGONDAGEN VET VI INGENTING)

Uppland, 1900. Twenty-year-old Matilda serves as a maid on the prosperous farm of Storängen, working long days in a world where women are expected to endure, quietly, gratefully, and without question. It is a good position, people say. A safe life. A life she should accept. But Matilda wants more.

She dreams of Uppsala: a city of electric lights, new ideas, and the promise of independence. As soon as she comes of age, she plans to leave, just like her friend Frida before her, certain that life in the city must be freer, richer, and far more thrilling than the narrow existence waiting for her in the countryside.

Then Valter Enander arrives. Handsome, magnetic, and restless, he speaks of freedom and a future beyond the parish’s rigid expectations. Matilda falls headlong, convinced he is her way out. But beneath Valter’s charm lies something darker. When betrayal shatters her plans, Matilda is left to pick up the pieces of her life, and face the brutal cost of trusting the wrong man.

As long-buried family secrets begin to surface, Matilda learns that her grandmother once worked as a seamstress in Uppsala. Matilda can sew too, a skill her grandmother insisted she master before she died. Now Matilda must decide: will she repeat the fate that has claimed generations of women before her, or rewrite it? And to do that, Matilda must confront love, violence, loyalty,
and herself.

WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS is the first novel in a sweeping historical family saga of love and loss, female resilience, and the fierce struggle to shape one’s own destiny. The Matilda series is dramatic and intimate narrative, and follows two families whose lives and paths cross in different ways throughout the books, moving between rural of Uppland and the growing city of Uppsala at the dawn of a new century. For readers who love strong female protagonists and richly drawn historical settings.

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Sweden: Bazar / Bonnierförlagen

REVIEWS

“What Tomorrow Brings weaves together strong female characters, forbidden love, and long-buried family secrets within a richly drawn historical setting. Set during a time of social change and growing opportunities for women, it follows a young heroine determined to shape her own future on her own terms. Epic in scope yet intimate in emotion, it is a powerful narrative of breaking free, of loyalty and betrayal, and of the enduring hope for a brighter tomorrow. With its compelling heroine and vivid sense of place, it has everything a publisher dreams of; emotional depth and commercial appeal that will captivate many readers.”
Teresa Knochenhaur, Publisher, Bazar, Sweden

“Holmgren skilfully brings to life the historical settings in which Matilda lives, and she portrays the characters in a convincing way. The story also highlights women’s emancipation at a time when women did not even have the right to vote.” Rating: 4
BTJ / SWE