"Compassionate and complex" Financial Times
"Stridsberg writes with chilling poise" New York Times
"A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family. Stridsberg''s literary talent left me awestruck" KATE REED PETTY, author of True Story
**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021**
Inside me was voiceless silence, above me only bare defenceless sky and beneath me the earth''s unrelenting gravity, pulling me down
The moment of Inni''s death will never end. Not ever. Murdered one summer''s day on a lake shore at the heart of a distant, rain-washed forest, she tells the story of the moment her life was violently extinguished by an anonymous man.
But amidst that moment of death lies the story of what came before, and of the lives that carry on afterwards. This is the story of her children, her parents and the chain of choices, tragedies and accidents that lead her to a l
