Sisterhood (Systerskap)

Katerina Janouch

The Lund family house at Lindängen Square is for sale. After John's affair Cecilia and John have separated and Cecilia finds herself becoming an "every-other-week" mom. She misses family life and devotes herself to her job as a midwife and is absorbed by the drama at the maternity ward. At the same time she carries anger and finds single life hard to get used to. Maybe the visits with John at the family counselor will help her straighten up her life? Then a phone call turns out to change her life in many ways. Suddenly Cecilia understands where her true feelings are. Now she is ready to fight for what is important in life.

 

While Cecilia's family is falling apart, she gets caught up in another crisis. It starts with a number of brutal assaults in the city. Then Cecilia's niece suddenly disappears, rumours and gossip spreads over the Internet and the concept of "sisterhood" gets a new meaning – what happens when the victim becomes the perpetrator? And, is revenge really the right way to gender equality?

 

Sisterhood is the second book in the series about midwife Cecilia Lund.

 

350 pages

 

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The Czech Republic: Mlada Fronta

Sweden: Piratförlaget

 

Reviews

"Katerina Janouch has written about a world she lives in herself and knows: the one of a middle age mom of a number of children. The story does however make side tracks into the work as a midwife at a maternity ward and into the world of women’s vulnerability to sexualized violence.  It gives the story and Janouch a sympathetic color; she wants something more with her novel."

Folkbladet

 

”Two things to point out, the description of Cecilia’s work in the delivery room at the hospital, which is lively and initiated. And also the part where Cecilia’s and John’s house is on sale. Strange people come to the house to ‘style it’. The worn down house and Cecilia’s situation come together in a touching way. Nothing seems to be good enough, nor the house or the woman.”

Östgötacorrespondenten

 

”I think Katerina writes so well, and this is hear real strength, about people in personal crisis and their different ways to deal with their difficulties.”

Bokhora

 

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