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Elisabet Nemert

Blue Longing

Author sold over 240,000 copies in Sweden 
 
Elisabet Nemert, Sweden’s most beloved author of historical women’s
fiction returns with an epic, moving story of an unlikely and enduring
friendship between two survivors brought together by fate. 

Two girls, Naomi and Pia, are born on the same day in February 1950:
Naomi in Kano, Nigeria, and Pia in Stockholm, Sweden. Naomi is aban-
doned by her family and taken in by Jorinda, who knows everything
about healing herbs and gives Naomi a childhood on the savannah,
where the wild beasts become her best friends. Pia is born in to the
wealthy, Swedish social-welfare state, but a childhood in an abusive
home leaves her deeply scarred.

When Jorinda is murdered, Naomi’s life is upturned and she is placed

into an orphanage. A visiting Swedish surgeon, Birgitta Kronwall, notic-
es how Naomi is ostracized for her cleft lip – regarded as a mark of the
devil – and adopts Naomi to bring her back to Sweden with her - a
Sweden where people of colour were rarely seen at the time. It is at a
very white, suburban school in Stockholm where Naomi and Pia meet
and from that moment on, they become inseparable.
With the horrors of the Second World War still fresh on the mind but
the Sixties counter-culture rapidly sweeping in with a new kind of free-
dom, Naomi and Pia find their unpredictable lives filled with grief and
joy, drama and love…all bound up in their enduring friendship. BLUE
LONGING is a spellbinding story about the equal rights of men and  
women, of all colours and stations in life in a rapidly changing world. Op ons 
Czech: Grada Publishing
A story with emo onal depth that unfolds across the drama c post-
war decades, from Nigeria to Sweden, London and New York City, with Publica on 
Bokförlaget Forum
echoes of Half of a Yellow Sun. September 2018
420 pages

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coming tedious.’ Available
— Femina
‘Very powerful and has unavoidable parallels to our me.’
— Östgöta Correspondenten

Elisabet Nemert (b. 1950) writes bestselling, award-winning historical women’s

fic on in the tradi on of Marianne Fredriksson. Her latest novel, The Time of the
Wolf was shortlisted for Book of the Year Award 2017 in Sweden and sold over Contact 
40,000 copies alone. Eleonoora Kirk
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