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52<br />

The Memory of Love<br />

A Novel<br />

Linda Olsson<br />

Fans of Astrid & Veronika and Chris Cleave’s Little Bee<br />

will be thrilled to read Linda Olsson’s third novel. Here is<br />

Olsson doing what she does best: illuminating the terrain<br />

of friendship and examining the many forms that love<br />

can take.<br />

Marion Flint, a woman in her early fifties, has spent<br />

fifteen years living a quiet life on the rugged coast of New<br />

Zealand—a life that allows the door to her past to remain<br />

firmly shut. But a chance meeting with a young, damaged<br />

boy named Ika and her desire to help him force Marion<br />

to open the Pandora’s box of her memory. Seized by a<br />

sudden urgency to make sense of her past, she examines<br />

each image one-by-one: her grandfather, her mother, her<br />

brother, her lover. Perhaps if she can create order from<br />

the chaos, her memories will be easier to carry. Perhaps<br />

she’ll be able to find forgiveness for the little girl that was<br />

her, for the young woman she had been, and for the people<br />

she left behind.<br />

lindA olsson is the author of Astrid & Veronika and Sonata for<br />

Miriam. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and Stockholm, Sweden.<br />

Praise for Astrid & Veronika:<br />

“ Natural and vivid, utterly<br />

convincing . . . simply so beguiling.”<br />

—The New York Times<br />

“ Evokes with great beauty and passion<br />

the landscape of friendship.” —Kim Edwards,<br />

New York Times bestselling author of<br />

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter<br />

<strong>Penguin</strong> Readers guide bound into every book<br />

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