In the Month of the Midnight Sun
'A gripping, beautifully written novel that I devoured in a day...as thrilling as it is fascinating' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites
Sweden 1856.
Blackasen Mountain: a distant place of rumour, superstition and now - murder.
They say it was the Lapp who killed the three men.
But something is not right.
Ester knows it - but to help the settlers is to betray her people.
Magnus feels it too. Sent by the Minister to survey the mountain, he cannot resist its mystery.
And Lovisa: banished from the city by her father, travelling with her sister's husband, she is perhaps closest of them all to the wildness of the place.
Three people, caught in the haunting light of the midnight sun.
Cecilia Ekbäck was born in the north of Sweden; her parents come from Lapland. During her teens, she worked as a journalist and after university specialised in marketing. Over twenty years her work for a multinational took her to Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, the Middle East and the UK.
In 2010, she finished a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She now lives in Calgary with her husband and twin daughters, 'returning home' to the landscape and the characters of her childhood in her writing. Her first novel, Wolf Winter, was published to great acclaim. You can find out more about Cecilia via her website www.ceciliaekback.com and you can follow her @CeciliaEkbäck on Twitter.