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Johanna Hedman was born in Stockholm in 1993. She holds a Master's degree in Peace and Conflict Studies and she has lived and worked in Paris, southern India and New York, where she interned for the Swedish UN delegation. The Trio is her first novel.
A smart, elegant and moving novel, all the more impressive for it
being Johanna Hedman's debut... The stylish emotional distance of
Normal People
*The Times*
Sharp, vividly imagined and affecting in a way that both intrigues
and captivates
*Irish Times*
Fans of Sally Rooney will adore this excellent novel, which has
garnered rave reviews
*The Bookseller*
The Trio is like the love child of Normal People and Brideshead
Revisited. A sublime and elegiac meditation on love, intimacy,
freedom and jealousy, it elegantly explores the gulf between our
interior lives and the personas we perform - and between ourselves
and other people. Hedman's writing (and Josefsson's stunning
translation) is staggeringly beautiful. Vivid, effortless, and
perceptive to a molecular degree
*Francesca Reece, author of 'Voyeur'*
Delicate and beguiling... The Trio spans from Berlin to London to
Paris as the [characters] continually renegotiate who they each are
to each other, questions of ownership and privilege floating in the
background of summers which feel both fleeting and endless
*Esquire*
An international success before even being published, The Trio is a
novel that stands well above the hype... Elegiac, bittersweet,
[with] the golden shimmer of nostalgia, it is a story about big
emotions
*Gefle Dagblad*
Mature and confident, delicate and eloquent, a study in intimacy .
. . Timeless and universal
*Kult Magasin*
Full of verve, nostalgia, longing and the claustrophobic euphoria
of being in the world with the people you love, this gorgeous novel
whisks you along with it; you have no choice but to gratefully
follow
*Lara Williams, author of 'Supper Club'*
Vigorous and vivid, wistful and engaging. Johanna Hedman should
definitely expect to win prizes
*Upsala Nya Tidning*
An acute, eloquent and bittersweet debut... There may be an August
Prize nomination!
*Femina*
An unusual debut, confident and intriguing, [by] a mature and
gifted writer. The implicit nostalgia works its magic [in this]
story of the time when life first gains colour and shape
*Expressen*
The ending leaves a stinging sensation [asking] questions of what
really becomes important in hindsight, what we remember and how we
remember it, and, not least why we become who we are as a
consequence of our choices
*SR Kulturnytt*
Stylishly and elegantly composed
*Göteborgs-Posten*
How on earth is it possible that Johanna Hedman is a debutant? It
feels as if I've seen the future of Swedish writing
*Alex Schulman, author of 'The Survivors'*
An absolutely fantastic debut novel
*Fredrik Backman, author of 'A Man Called Ove'*
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