Children of the Long Winter

A grieving Danish historian arrives in a small Swedish town to catalogue an archive. What she finds instead is a voice.Margrete Bilde, sixty-one, has come north after her husband's death, carrying her professional distance like armour. In the uncatalogued boxes of a parish library, she discovers 18 sheets of rough paper covered in brown ink—a journal written by a fifteen-year-old farm girl named B...