A different lifestyle

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This book is based in Ödesmark a declining village in northernmost Sweden. The population seem to be living life with few modern conveniences.
Liv lives with her dominant father and her teenage son in a derelict house despite her father being very rich. We don’t know who the boy’s father is and Liv has tried to escape her life until her son came along. Vidar, Livs father, has made many people unhappy with his past business activities and now someone wants to get back what they think is rightfully theirs which puts Liv and her family’s lives in jeopardy.

This book has been translated from Swedish and doesn’t always flow well. The plot takes a long time to get going and so the first half is quite slow. I found the characters strange but that could be due to not having the racial knowledge of Swedish backwaters.
Unfortunately it’s not a book I could recommend to other readers.