That Kind of Family
There’s little love lost between three siblings, Dyveke, Benedikte and Steffen, and apart from their absent drunk of a father, they have nothing in common either.
But when their father is on his deathbed, the three siblings are torn away from the chaos of their everyday lives and forced to contend with each other.
But are we duty-bound to give care just because we’re family?
And is blood always thicker than water?
That Kind of Family is a life-affirming novel about loyalty and loss, forgiveness and solace – about which truths count when our memories don’t match up.
And do we spend the rest of our lives searching for what was missing from our childhoods?
Foreign Sales
Sweden, Bazar/Bonnier
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«Heidi Linde is a sharp observer and a sober narrator. Her pinpoint precision makes for an alluring sewing kit of a novel. […] An artist of dialogue, Heidi Linde has written a novel equally easy to read and intense about the three siblings. The pages seem to fly by, but at the same time there are details worth dwelling on on every page, in almost every sentence. An attentive reader will be able to appreciate all these details.»
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