Cecilia Ekback - Author Talk and Signing
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Ceclia Ekback will be discussing her debut novel Wolf Winter at The Collection.
Tuesday 10th March
7.00 pm
The Collection, Auditorium
£4
“Like a silent fall of snow; suddenly, the reader is enveloped… visually acute, skilfully written; it won’t easily erase its tracks in the reader’s mind.” Hilary Mantel
“Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended.” Lee Child
“The most brilliantly, dark, eerie, intriguing, out-of-this-world tale I've ever read.
Think "The Killing" and then square it.” Ruby Wax
THEY SAY THAT A WOLF MADE THOSE WOUNDS. BUT WHAT WILD ANIMAL CUTS A BODY SO CLEAN?
WOLF WINTER is a novel of breath-taking imagination, a story in which you can lose hours of time, an author who can draw you so far into the world she has created that you will want to let go of your own.
Cecilia Ekbäck has set Wolf Winter in the remote and beautiful landscape of Swedish Lapland in 1717. There, a group of settlers from across Scandinavia, all with reasons to escape the past, have come to forge a new life in the shadow of Blackåsen Mountain, among them intelligent, resilient Maija.
Not long after their arrival, her fourteen-year-old daughter Frederika stumbles across a mutilated body in a picturesque glade. The other settlers are quick to dismiss this as a wolf attack, but Maija is certain that it is a vicious murder – and one committed by someone within their small community.
As the seasons change and that harshest of all winters - a ‘Wolf Winter’ - descends, Maija begins a dangerous quest to unearth the secrets that both her neighbours and the Church that dominates their lives have conspired to bury. But past tragedies and betrayals still haunt the community and as the truth begins to emerge, Maija will learn the full cost of survival demanded from the mountain - and the terrible truth about those who have paid its price.
Born in Sweden, CECILIA EKBÄCK, who received an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, has returned to the landscape and history of her childhood to bring Wolf Winter to vivid life. We can feel the cold seep into our bones, hear the drums of the Lapp herders, and watch the bobbing torches as the settlers stream down the mountainside on their sleds to answer the Church’s summons.
This is a story built up layer by layer, simultaneously a labyrinthine mystery, an evocative exploration of a time and place far from our own, and an exquisite literary novel. It will live on in the imagination long after the last page.
Cecilia’s parents hail from Lapland. During her teens, she worked as a journalist and after university specialised in marketing. Over twenty years her work took her to Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, the Middle East and the UK. She speaks Swedish, English, French and Russian fluently and has some Spanish, Portuguese and German. Cecilia now lives in Calgary with her husband and twin daughters and is at work on her second novel.
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Tickets available from Lindum Books in Bailgate and The Collection reception desk.
If you can not attend Lindum Books can arrange dedicated copies for you. For more information contact Lindum Books on 01522 262374 or email info@lindumbooks.co.uk or The Collection on 01522 782040