Collected Works: A Novel. This item is unavailable.Collected Works: A Novel

'HOW CAN ANYONE LEAVE SOMEONE THEY LOVE?' Martin Berg is falling into crisis. Decades ago, he was an aspiring writer, his girlfriend was the wildly intelligent Cecilia Wickner, and his best friend was the hellraising artist Gustav Becker. But Martin's manuscript is now languishing in a drawer, Gustav has stopped answering his calls, and Cecilia has vanished - leaving him to raise their children alone. Cecilia: an eccentric wife and absent mother, a woman who was perhaps only true to herself. When Rakel stumbles across a clue as to why her mother left, she sets out to fill the gaps in her family's story and discovers that some questions have no clear answers...

Lydia Sandren is the eldest of seven siblings brought up in the west of Sweden. She has studied music and philosophy and is a practising psychologist, living in Gothenburg. Collected Works is her bestselling debut novel; it won the highly prestigious August Prize in 2020.

Agnes Broomé is a literary translator and academic in Scandinavian Studies at Harvard University. With a PhD in Translation Studies, her translations include August Prize winners The Expedition by Bea Uusma and The Gospel of Eels by Patrik Svensson.