Isak Lovenstad is a pioneering obstetrician - and a powerful, charismatic womanizer. Every summer he gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammars???. Here Erika, Molly, and Laura know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none is comparable to Erika's bond with Ragnar, a rebellious misfit whose intensity makes them inseparable. But when they turn ...
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Isak Lovenstad is a pioneering obstetrician - and a powerful, charismatic womanizer. Every summer he gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammars???. Here Erika, Molly, and Laura know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none is comparable to Erika's bond with Ragnar, a rebellious misfit whose intensity makes them inseparable. But when they turn fourteen, and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar's outcast state, she turns away suddenly - a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to alter forever each sister's life. Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammars??? to see their father - now eighty-four, estranged, and in year-round exile there - the three women confront, finally, the spectre of that awful summer whose mark each has since carried. Bold and starkly beautiful - a haunting parable of innocence lost. Praise for Grace: `Extraordinarily fearless . . . moving and convincing . . . This is a work of the most intricate and impressive artistry Independent on Sunday `Clear-sighted, large-hearted fiction without illusions but never without pity - or without humour' Independent `A spare and elegant novella . . . Ullmann carefully teases out both the fragility and the unexpected tenacity of human identity, confronting mortality and human frailty with raw honesty' Sunday Herald `Grace is, in a sense, about what happens in between, the major and minor events that occur over the course of any given day. Ullmann's triumph is that even when dealing with the weightiest of these, she has the lightest of touches' Time Out `Careful, lucid prose . . . insightful and accomplished' Guardian
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