Småfolk

Indtil verdens ende #1

by Elsebeth Egholm

Elsebeth Egholms stort anlagte krønike om hendes egen families historie.

Da brylluppet mellem skolelæreren Holger og hans unge husbestyrerinde Inga står i Brabrand Kirke i 1934, er de mørke skyer fra syd allerede begyndt at trække op over Danmark.

I første omgang er det dog noget helt andet, der fylder i Ingas liv. Hendes lykke forstyrres af tankerne om de fem søskende, der døde pludseligt og på samme tid, før Inga selv kom til verden. Tragedien har fyldt gennem hele hendes og de øvrige søskendes liv, uden at de har vidst, hvad der egentlig skete dengang. Men Inga har besluttet sig for at finde ud af, hvorfor de fem søskende gik bort. Og da hun og Holger flytter til København et års tid, får hun kontakt til en læge og en
sygeplejerske, der ved mere om sagen.

Mens Inga forsøger at finde ud af, hvad der skete med hendes store søskende, oplever hun tredivernes København, konditorier, stormagasiner og danserestauranter med sine nye venner. Men hun mærker også, hvordan tyskernes tanker får et stærkere og stærkere greb om danskerne.

406 pages, Hardcover

First published October 16, 2026

About the author

Bestselling Danish novelist Elsebeth Egholm began her career behind the keyboards of a piano. She was a student of music as a performer at The Royal Academy of Music and at the Department of Musicology at the University of Aarhus, before she changed instrument and enrolled at the Danish School of Journalism, also based in her hometown of Aarhus. She spent a few years working for a daily newspaper, but by 1992 she was living with future husband, the late British author Philip Nicholson, in the Maltese island of Gozo, working as a freelance writer.
Eventually she began making a name for herself as the author of a string of well crafted short stories published in women's magazines in both Denmark and the other Nordic countries. Her first novel had three long time friends mourning the death of a fourth and facing a mysterious stranger. ‘The Free Women's Club' was published in 1999 to unanimous acclaim. In ‘Scirocco' (2000) and ‘Opium' (2001) she moved into the darker corners of family and marriage, and combined a fullgrown plot with an engaging dose of international suspense.

Then, in 2002, she introduced full time journalist and part time sleuth Dicte Svendsen in ‘Hidden Errors', a novel about a dead baby found in a creek in the middle of big city Aarhus. By the second and third book in the series, ‘Own Risk' (2004) and ‘Personal Damage' (2005), both author and heroine were well known and highly treasured in her homeland. ‘Next of Kin' was published in 2006, dramatically outselling the previous novels, and Elsebeth Egholm found herself published, or about to be published, in Germany, Holland, Sweden and Norway. Afterwards, in 2008, the novel 'Life and Limb' reached the bookshelves followed by 'Against All Odds' i 2009. 'Three Dog Night' was published i 2011.

Currently Elsebeth Egholm divides her time between living in Aarhus, as does Dicte Svendsen, and on the Maltese island of Gozo.