Astrid, a reclusive woman, who has lived in this village her entire life, was living with a painful secret from her past.Ī beautiful friendship develops over meals - wine - music - walks - strawberry’s & mushroom picking in autumn - and talks.sharing sensitive stories with one forting each other’s quiet suffering.Įarly in their friendship- Veronica gave Astrid one of her previous novels. In the meantime Veronica becomes friends with her neighbor- Astrid - who was in her 80’s. The book she set out to write became increasingly elusive. Veronica would sit at her computer for hours each day - in touch with the past which she thought was going to be easy to write - but that wasn’t so. It struck her that her own memories seemed more clear in this new unrelated environment. She had dreams of the beach and sea every night - but most mornings only a fragment remained.yet the feelings lingered all day. She was hoping to reconcile a recent tragedy while finishing her latest novel. Veronica, is a young writer who came to New Zealand - rented a small house in a small village in Sweden. Many thanks to Jenny for telling me about this lovely novel by Swedish born novelist,
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