SOLTIMMAR – SUNSHINE HOURS
By Victoria Bergsman
SHE IS THE voice behind “Young Folks”. The woman in the New Order video. The singer at the front of the stage at Glastonbury.
SHE IS ALSO the child hiding from old men’s octopus-like arms, the young girl navigating life in a psychiatric ward. She is the woman who is high and unconscious after a Late Night gig, on an aeroplane, in a hotel room.
IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL debut book Sunshine Hours, Victoria Bergsman weaves together childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Music is a constant throughout her life. From her father’s self-composed songs, to her first rain-soaked gig with The Concretes, life on tour with Peter, Bjorn & John’s global success, and the thrill of creating her own music with Taken By Trees. Music makes everything possible: highs and lows, successes and free falls.
SUNSHINE HOURS IS a slightly psychedelic tale of a life, and all the ‘selves’ that make up a person. It is written with an honesty so intense it burns, and with a humour that cools the soul.
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by Norstedts, Sweden 2026
RIGHTS SOLD
Sweden, Norstedts
REVIEWS
Sunshine Hours is not a book that can logically be placed between Baez and Boye on the biography shelf, but rather somewhere close to Susanna Alakoski’s Beyond, Canadian author Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth and Andrew Walden’s Bloody Awful in Different Ways.
– Svenska Dagbladet
Sunshine Hours is a successful debut which, within the genre of musicians’ autobiographies, has the potential to become a modern Swedish classic.
– Dagens Nyheter
In the well-written and disarmingly honest biography Sunshine Hours, Victoria Bergsman weaves together memories from her childhood […] and a life in the world of music.
– Dagens Industri
[…] a moving story about identity and finding light in a dark existence.
– BTJ
Artist Victoria Bergsman’s autobiography grabs you right from the first page: this is a story she simply has to tell. The sense of urgency and the confident style elevate the book to something more than just an ordinary music memoir.
– Ekonomikanalen och Finansmagasinet
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