Toxic

by Flatland, Helga; Bagguley, Matt

• ISBN13: 9781916788138
• ISBN10: 1916788130
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-10-22
• Publisher: Orenda Books

Summary

When Mathilde is forced to leave her teaching job in Oslo after her relationship with eighteen-year-old Jacob is exposed, she flees to the countryside for a more authentic life.

Her new home is a quiet cottage on the outskirts of a dairy farm run by Andres and Johs, whose hobbies include playing the fiddle and telling folktales – many of them about female rebellion and disobedience, and seeking justice, whatever it takes.

But beneath the surface of the apparently friendly and peaceful pastoral surface of the farm, something darker and less harmonic starts to vibrate, and with Mathilde’s arrival, cracks start appearing … everywhere.

Author Biography

Helga Flatland is already one of Norway’s most awarded and widely read authors. Her fifth novel, A Modern Family (her first English translation), was published to wide acclaim in Norway in August 2017, and was a number-one bestseller. The rights have subsequently been sold across Europe and the novel has sold more than 100,000 copies. One Last Time was published in 2020 and is currently topping bestseller lists in Norway

Matt is a British, Norwegian-to-English translator, born in Coventry in 1971. Matt studied at Derby University, and spent several years as a musician and songwriter. In 2001, Matt moved to Norway, working with graphic design and music, while gradually developing an interest in translation. Now he works full-time with authors, publishers, literary agencies, and film producers – within fiction and non-fiction. From climate science or animal philosophy – to Roman history and Russian punk. Matt recently translated Simon Stranger’s acclaimed WW2 novel Keep Saying Their Names.