Set during the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905, this richly detailed novel of love and loss was inspired by the life of the authors great-great-aunts.

Oleanna and her sister Elisabeth are the last of their family working their farm deep in the western fjordland. A new century has begun, and the world outside is changing, but in the Sunnfjord their world is as small and secluded as the verdant banks of a high mountain lake.

The arrival of Anders, a cotter living just across the farms border, unsettles Oleannas peaceful but isolated existence. Sharing a common bond of loneliness and...