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‘Brilliant … Hanna’s Daughters outlines the lives of three generations of women and their complicated relationships with one another’ USA TODAY
‘Hanna and her daughters are hard to shake off, lingering long after you’ve turned the last page … Profound, moving’ SHE
‘Extremely moving and, as its bestseller status might suggest, hypnotically readable’ SPECTATOR
Anna has returned from visiting her mother. Restless and unable to sleep, she wanders through her parents’ house, revisiting the scenes of her childhood. In a cupboard drawer, folded and pushed away from sight, she finds a sepia photograph of her grandmother, Hanna, whom she remembers as old and forbidding, a silent stranger enveloped in a huge pleated black dress. Now, looking at the features Anna recognises as her own, she realises she is looking at a different woman from the one of her memory.
Set against the majestic isolation of the Scandinavian lakes and mountains, this is more than a story of three Swedish women. It is a moving testament of a time forgotten and an epic romance in every sense of the word.
‘Hanna and her daughters are hard to shake off, lingering long after you’ve turned the last page … Profound, moving’ SHE
‘Extremely moving and, as its bestseller status might suggest, hypnotically readable’ SPECTATOR
Anna has returned from visiting her mother. Restless and unable to sleep, she wanders through her parents’ house, revisiting the scenes of her childhood. In a cupboard drawer, folded and pushed away from sight, she finds a sepia photograph of her grandmother, Hanna, whom she remembers as old and forbidding, a silent stranger enveloped in a huge pleated black dress. Now, looking at the features Anna recognises as her own, she realises she is looking at a different woman from the one of her memory.
Set against the majestic isolation of the Scandinavian lakes and mountains, this is more than a story of three Swedish women. It is a moving testament of a time forgotten and an epic romance in every sense of the word.
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Reviews
Extremely moving and, as its bestseller status might suggest, hypnotically readable
Hanna and her daughters are hard to shake off, lingering long after you've turned the last page ... Profound, moving ... rich in detail
Gripping and gritty. Catherine Cookson with a touch of Strindberg
Fredriksson's knack for connecting with her characters creates a gentle and subtly nuanced portrait of growing friendship and understanding
Fredriksson is gifted with both the insights of maturity and the art of the storyteller
The writing is exquisite ... For me, finding this gem of an author was a true and marvellous discovery
Skilled at picturing the changing world of Sweden and the evolving place of women in it
A wonderful book. The family chronicle, a kind of story which once produced the greatest novels, now seems to be experiencing a renaissance
Well translated and beautifully controlled ... Very satisfying
An uplifting family saga ... Fredriksson provides a satisfyingly complex ... chronicle of women and the burdens imposed by their family history, their gender and themselves ... Its message of reconciliation is transcendent
Brilliant ... Hanna's Daughters outlines the lives of three generations of women and their complicated relationships with one another
I loved Hanna's Daughters from the very first page, and I absolutely could not put it down ... Written with grace and wit, this novel deserves to be read, discussed, and cherished by future generations of mothers and daughters