Looking-Glass Sisters

Gohril Gabrielsen, born in 1961, grew up in Finnmark, the northernmost county in Norway, and currently lives in Oslo. She won Aschehoug's First Book Award for her 2006 novel Unevnelige hendelser (Unspeakable Events), and was the recipient of the Tanum Scholarship for Women. Since the publication of her debut novel she has brought out two further books to great acclaim in her native Norway, Svimlende muligheter, ingen frykt (The Looking-Glass Sisters) and Skadedyr (Vermin). Her fourth novel is due out in 2015.

'The sisters' violent intimacy has its own power, but the real strength of this book lies in the way so much is withheld.' DAILY MAIL ------------- 'A work of intelligence, empathy, intensity and exceptional beauty and originality.' Pam Norfolk, LANCASHIRE EVENING POST ---------------- 'Excellently translated by John Irons, Gabrielsen's novel disturbs and challenges. Once we have begun, though, it is near impossible to pull away.' THE NATIONAL