The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North

‘Sonja is a thoroughly modern heroine… nothing at all like Bridget Jones. Comical and clever, with a knife-twist of uneasiness’

The Times

‘Beautiful, faceted, haunting stories… Dorthe Nors is fantastic!’

Junot Díaz

‘Darkly funny and incisive’

FT

‘A strange, haunting, and utterly original exploration of displacement and desire… a marvel, a remarkable achievement’

The New York Times Book Review

‘Ferociously noir… If Chandler and Hammett had truly walked on the wild side, it would read like Clinch’

Val McDermid

‘Lindgren recounts the commotions of the grand theatres of war alongside the domestic dramas playing out in her life. Her empathy for and insight into the horrors of war is striking’

Observer

‘Funny and wistful… very moving, layered and optimistic’

Financial Times

‘Wonderfully knotty… a very grown-up fantasy masquerading as quirky fable. Unexpected, thrilling and absurd’

Sunday Telegraph