Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs

Author(s): Linda Olsson

NZ Fiction

A stunning first novel that was to become an international bestseller. Veronika, a writer in her early thirties, rents a house in the Swedish countryside to finish her novel. She is also cocooning herself from her past. She befriends Astrid, a reclusive older woman who has lived in the village all her life. Olsson leads us through the flowering of their unusual and tender friendship, as they slowly and carefully reveal their life histories and sometimes heart-rending pasts. The Swedish landscape is always a powerful presence and measures the progress of the women's relationship; as the icy winter and bare trees give way to spring and then summer, the women's friendship deepens. Also available as an eBook

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Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award 2006.

Linda Olsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948. She graduated from the University of Stockholm with a law degree, and worked in law and finance until she left Sweden in 1986. What was intended as a three-year posting to Kenya then became a meandering tour of the world with stops in Singapore, the UK and Japan, until she settled in New Zealand with her family. Linda's first novel Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs was published in New Zealand in 2005 and became an international success, selling hundreds of thousands of copies in Scandinavia, Europe and the United States. It was followed by the heart-breaking and moving Sonata for Miriam, also a bestseller in Scandinavia.

General Fields

  • : 9780143020288
  • : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
  • : Penguin Books (NZ)
  • : 0.276
  • : June 2005
  • : 200x130mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Linda Olsson
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 823.3
  • : 288
  • : Modern fiction