THE WINTER FOREST

NÄR ISEN SJUNGER – THE WINTER FOREST

By Linda Edgarsson

THE YEAR IS 1904. Erika Skog stands with her arms crossed in a field in America. Her reunion with the father she never got to know is almost heartfelt. Reconciliation with her mother Hilda, who abandoned her as a child, is, however, a long time coming. Their fundamentally different temperaments – Hilda with her quiet demeanour and Erika with her brashness – make it difficult for them to grow closer.

ERIKA’S ARRIVAL IN America comes as a shock even to the head of the family, Jacob Lund, when he realises that Erika is expecting his child. She realises she cannot stay – once the baby is born, she must return to Småland and the love that has always been true, before it is too late. And for Aunt Anna at the Sjölund farm, the memory is fading ever more.

THE WINTER FOREST is the final standalone instalment in the trilogy about Hilda Skog, an emigrant from Småland, and her daughter Erika. The book is about love, pain, grief, longing and forgiveness, and shows how patterns of behaviour can repeat themselves, no matter how much we want to do things differently.