Blueness

The novel is nominated for The Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize. Rights sold in 20 countries.

2017. Norway. Signe has fought fiercely against the destruction of the natural world all her life. She has traveled the world, participating in environmental actions. She has no family and no home, but she has an old friend and loyal companion: the yacht “Blueness,” on which she has been sailing the seas for many years. Now Signe is nearly seventy, and she returns to the village where she spent her childhood. Memories. Here Signe takes on board “Blueness” a strange cargo and embarks on a new journey – this time to France, to meet a man who once changed her life, and who has now committed a terrible crime.

2041. France. David is trying to escape from a dehydrated country suffering from drought and fires. Not long ago, he had a home, a wife, and two children. Now he is left alone with his little daughter Lou in a refugee camp, and ahead of them lies uncertainty. Every day the situation in the camp becomes more tense, water is disappearing, and there is no news from his wife and son. One day David and Lou find an old yacht in the garden of an abandoned house. The yacht becomes their hope, a saving message from the older generation. But that generation has taken away their future…