Book description
'The dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you
have to get used to it.'
It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine
and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up
manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered
when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. As Joakim
struggles to keep his sanity in the wake of the tragedy, the old house
begins to exert a strange hold over him.
Joakim has never been in the least superstitious, but from where are
those whispering noises coming? To whom does his daughter call out in
the night? And why is the barn door for ever ajar?
As the end of the year approaches, and the infamous winter storm
moves in across Oland, Joakim begins to fear that the most
spine-chilling story he's heard about Eel Point might indeed be true:
that every Christmas the dead return...
Throughout his life,
Johan Theorin
has been a regular visitor to the Baltic island of à Â-land, where his
books are set. His mother's family - sailors, fishermen and farmers -
have lived there for centuries, nurturing the island's rich legacy of
strange tales and folklore. A journalist by profession, Johan lives in
Gothenburg, Sweden.
