KAPITALET – CAPITAL
By Therese Bohman
EMMA WORKS AT a popular preschool in Södermalm, Stockholm, where the food is organic and creativity takes center stage. Alice is a blogger and influencer, with a perfectly curated life that appears flawless from the outside.
WHEN ALICE’S DAUGHTER Stella starts at the preschool, the two women’s paths become increasingly intertwined. Soon, Emma has both the family’s trust and the key to their home, while her relationship with Alice oscillates between contempt and admiration, obsession, and perhaps even infatuation.
THE CLOSER EMMA gets, the more she wants: not the things, not the money, but access. To be the one who sees behind the facade. She has been watching Alice long enough to know where the cracks are.
THERESE BOHMAN’S CAPITAL is a contemporary psychological novel about desire, class, and parasocial relationships – and about how far a person will go to feel seen.
ABOUT THE BOOK
To be published by Norstedts, Sweden 2026
RIGHTS SOLD TO
Poland, Wydawnictwo Pauza
Sweden, Norstedts
REVIEWS
Thriller-like qualities […] The novel is a stylised contemporary reflection featuring characters whose intentions are obscure, which highlights the fallacy of believing that human beings are static and fully comprehensible. In an age when one can make a living by marketing one’s authentic, consistent self, Emma comes across as almost alien, indeed special, and therefore strangely intriguing. 5/5.
– BTJ
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