The Strawberry Girl

ISBN-13: 9781784702175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str.

Stromme Lisa

Opis

Summer 1893. In a small Norwegian fishing village, local girl Johanne dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot for painters as 'The Strawberry Girl'. When Johanne becomes a maid for the wealthy Ihlen family, their wayward daughter recruits her as a go-between in her pursuit of the controversial painter Edvard Munch.

Recenzje

A tale of lost innocence, the power of art and the pain of love Sunday Express

O autorze

Lisa Strømme was born in Yorkshire in 1973, and studied at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She lives with her Norwegian husband and their two children close to Åsgårdstrand, the coastal village where Edvard Munch had a summer home, and which provided the setting for The Strawberry Girl.

The Strawberry Girl is her first novel.