Felemakaren - Innbundet

Set in Romsdal in 1792, this novel draws on a family memory also mentioned in Edvard Hoem’s Heimlandet. A young woman who is expecting a child with Pe, brother of Lars, disappears and is never found. Pe is suspected of murder but acquitted, though suspicion remains in the community and with Lars. Lars dreams of becoming a skipper, but war leads him to the battle of Copenhagen and then to five years as a prisoner on British ships. There he learns to make fiddles from a Frenchman. On returning home, he settles in Kristiansund and meets Gunhild, who has waited for him. The novel explores misfortune, sibling conflict, thwarted expectations and love.