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Margit Sandemo aims to cast a spell over the UK
In English now for the first time – The Legend of the Ice People has already captivated 25 million readers across Europe. Winter 1581: a deadly plague outbreak robs sixteen-year old peasant girl Silje of all her family. Homeless, starving and shepherding two abandoned children, she stumbles out of the corpse-strewn streets of Trondheim on Norway’s northern coast…
Born of a Swedish aristocratic mother and a working class father, Margit has drawn deeply on her own rich and varied life and Europe’s history in creating a wide body of fictional work that is always passionate, mysterious, earthy, often erotic and imbued above all else with a powerful narrative drive. She numbers Scottish royalty, Pomeranian dukes and duchesses and a robber chief or two amongst her ancestry – her own father was the illegitimate son of the Norwegian Nobel-prize winning author, Bjornstjerne Bjornson.
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