Book description
On a warm night in Oslo, Martin draws Stella into one of the risky
games that have defined their ten years together: a balancing act on the
edge of their rooftop, seven storeys up. Amid the shouts of horrified
onlookers, Stella stumbles, falling for a moment into Martin's arms
before plummeting to her death. Did he try to save her?
This is the question that begins Linn Ullmann's transfixing tale of
Stella: a jealous wife, compliant mistress, treasured friend, angelic
nurse, unloved daughter, devoted mother, and - finally - a woman
possessed of a secret now forever lost to the living. Born in 1966,
Linn Ullmann is a graduate of New York University, where she studied
English literature and began work on a Ph. D. She returned to Oslo in
1990 to pursue a career in journalism. She had established herslef as a
prominent literary critic when her first novel, Before You Sleep
, was published in 1998 and became a critically acclaimed bestseller
throughout Europe. She writes a column for Norway's leading morning
newspaper and lives in Oslo with her husband, son, two stepchildren, and
a dog.
