Friendship: Echoes of the City II

Set in post-war Oslo and following on from Echoes of a City, by an author who understands the city like no other.

"One of Norway's finest writers" GUARDIAN

"Profoundly resonant" TLS

In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down by being a homemaker and widowed mother. To the indignation of the Red Cross ladies, she cautiously frees herself from the role she has otherwise fulfilled to the letter. She finds a job that she turns out to be more than good at, and some kind...