HUSET – THE HOUSE
by Sanne Søndergaard
WHEN FURNITURE DESIGNER Mia Rosholm loses her partner in a tragic accident, she abandons her old life and buys an extraordinary house hidden deep in the Danish woods: a brutalist masterpiece designed by the legendary architect Kurt Wittman for the wife he adored.
THE HOUSE HAS stood empty for decades. As Mia begins restoring it, her friend Anna launches a podcast about Wittman and his wife Charlotte, who mysteriously disappeared at the height of his fame. To Anna, it is the perfect tragic love story: a brilliant architect, a lost muse, and a lifetime of heartbreak.
BUT THE HOUSE itself tells a different story.
AS STRANGE SOUNDS echo through its walls and unsettling details emerge from its architecture, Mia begins uncovering traces that refuse to fit the accepted narrative. The deeper she ventures into the building’s hidden spaces, the more she suspects that Charlotte’s disappearance was not the ending of a love story, but the concealment of something far darker.
MOVING BETWEEN THE 1960s and the present day, The House follows two women separated by half a century yet connected by grief, isolation, and the dangerous myths that surround love and artistic genius. What begins as the story of a celebrated architect and his muse gradually transforms into a devastating exploration of female erasure, creative ownership, and the stories society tells to protect powerful men.
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by Lindhardt og Ringhof, Denmark 2025
RIGHTS SOLD
Denmark, Lindhardt og Ringhof
REVIEWS
“Sanne Søndergaard tells the story of women’s lives then and now, with a strange house at the center. Her beautiful novel is filled with heartbreak and death and the ending will shake you!”
– Berlingske
“As a dark love story and psychological ghost novel, The House is uncomfortably unsettling and effectively ominous. Sanne Søndergaard has written an atmospheric novel that can be recommended to readers who are tired of plots featuring overt psychopathic misogyny, but who would like to be entertained by misogyny with an elitist flair—and a feminist point of view that seems to justify it.”
– Weekendavisen
“With The House, Sanne Søndergaard has written an intense and captivating novel in which an enigmatic architectural icon becomes the focal point for love, grief, and mystery. It is a story you devour in one sitting—and afterwards are left wondering what is really going on.”
– POV International
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