Journalist Kajsa Coren has retreated to an island near Oslo when a man visits her to draw her attention to the fate of a missing woman. A little later, this man is fished out of the sea dead. Apparently, someone drugged him and threw him into the water. Kajsa’s interest is aroused. The case she is supposed to investigate happened years ago. A young woman named Julia went missing, and now her mother, a psychiatrist, has returned to the island…
A gripping novel about lost paintings, a mysterious clinic and a young woman who is keeping a secret.
Trude Teige
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In 2015, When Grandma Danced in the Rain was published and cemented Trude Teige among international bestselling authors. The novel tells the story of Juni who returns to the house of her deceased grandparents on a small Norwegian island where she discovers a photograph: it shows her grandmother Tekla as a young woman with a German soldier. Juni can no longer ask anyone about it, so the search for the truth takes her to Berlin and to the small town of Demmin in eastern Germany, where hundreds of families committed suicide in May 1945. Juni realises that this is about much more than a secret love. Inspired by actual people and events, the book was nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize. It became one of the bestselling books in Germany in 2023 and remained on the bestseller lists for over a year. Teige counted among Norway’s top-selling authors for all of 2024. As of 2025, more than 1.5 million copies of the author’s works have been sold worldwide.
