Lysthuset

by Hilde Hagerup

Rita vokser opp på Hammervik campingplass på Østlandet midt på 80-tallet. Hennes faste holdepunkt i livet er storebroren Simon. Ritas mor, Hjørdis, tilbringer dagene i sengen hvor hun i drømmene snakker med faren deres som reiste til Australia for lenge siden. Da en engelsk marinbiolog kommer til campingplassen, står moren for første gang på elleve år opp av sengen og inn i Ritas liv. Bestemor Alma forteller historier om mennesker som elsker dem de ikke kan få, en skjebne familiens kvinner har fått smake. Men er det slik at alt som har skjedd kan komme tilbake å slå deg over fingrene?

287 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2005

About the author

Hilde Hagerup is a Norwegian novelist and author of children's literature. She is the daughter of Klaus Hagerup. She received the Norwegian Critics Prize for Best children's book in 2002 for Løvetannsang.
She is a highly acclaimed and award winning author. Her books have been translated into many languages. She teaches creative writing and literature at The Norwegian Institute of Children’s Literature.

Hilde Hagerup was born in 1976. After her childhood and youth in Fredrikstad she went to Great Britain, where she among other things studied Third World history at the University of London.

Hilde Hagerup’s books have received much acclaim and have been published in Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Lithuania, Germany, France, Thailand, Finland, the Netherlands, and Croatia. For Spindrift (1998) she was awarded the Norwegian Ministry of Culture’s First Book Award. Dearly Loved was published in 2000, and The Dandelion Song (2002) received The Critics Prize, Sonja Hagemann’s Children’s Literature Prize, and the School Librarians’ Prize. For The Bite (2007) she received the Ministry of Culture’s Literature Prize. In 2011 the first book in the series The Ghosts of Frosty Island was published, and it shows a whole new side of Hilde Hagerup’s authorship. The series about Master Detective Tim and Co is written in cooperation with her father, author Klaus Hagerup.

Hilde Hagerup has also written a biography of Agatha Christie, several short stories, and the play Hummingbird. In 2005, the novel Folly was published, her first book for adults. In addition to her own books, several short stories she has written are published in numerous anthologies.

Reviews

[Inger-Johanne · Rating 2 out of 5]

Jeg leste denne boken fordi jeg hadde hørt forfatteren på en forfattersamtale på biblioteket og var litt nysgjerring på hvordan hun skriver. Det var et delvis tilfeldig valg av bok. Det tok litt tid til å venne seg til all ekkelheten. Innimellom var handlingen og personene interessante, og det var jo noen artige paralleller og kontraster med f.eks. hvordan de ulike personene forholdt seg til havet, og de glidende overgangene mellom virkelighet og drøm. Jeg var velvillig innstilt til å la meg drive med av den magiske realismen, men den fungerte ikke helt for min del.