When must we break the rules? What happens when the price is too high?

Anna’s voice will keep you reading, so close as it speaks to us from the past. So will the voices of the villagers, colorful characters all, as they condemn her for wanting a child she had no right to have.

“Turning to fiction, she drew on memories of her native Sweden, where she spent her childhood summers in a village much like the one we encounter in Fylgia.”

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Zarathustra’s Tightrope Walker

Sep, 2018

Journal by Birgitta Hjalmarson SUSAN MARY MALONE / JUNE 26, 2018 Creating a Great Novel out of Historical Events This week we have an interview with Birgitta Hjalmarson, whose beautiful novel, Fylgia,was published this month by...

Mark and the Devil

May, 2018

Journal by Birgitta Hjalmarson They say when God created Sweden, he began with the south, and so it became fertile and good in every way. The Devil, meanwhile, ran farther north, where he created the district of Mark. On the surface it was...