The Summer of Ellen, Agnete Friis
The Summer of Ellen, Agnete Friis
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The Summer of Ellen

Author: Agnete Friis, Sinead Quirke Kongerskov

Narrator: Victor Bevine

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/21/2019

Synopsis

Agnete Friis's lyrical, evocative work of psychological suspense weaves together two periods in one man's life to explore obsession, toxic masculinity, and the tricks we play on our own memory. Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who is in his nineties and still lives with his brother Anders on their rural Jutland farm-a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades: What happened to Ellen? To find out, Jacob must revisit the farm and confront what took place that summer-one defined by his teenage obsession with Ellen, a beautiful young hippie from the local commune who came to stay with Anton and Anders, and the unsolved disappearance of Jacob's classmate's sister. In revisiting old friends and rivals, Jacob discovers that the tragedies that have haunted him for over forty years were not what they seemed.

About Agnete Friis

Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis are the Danish duo behind
the Nina Borg series. Friis is a journalist by training, while Kaaberbøl has
been a professional writer since the age of fifteen, with more than two million books
sold worldwide. Their first collaboration, The
Boy in the Suitcase, was a New York
Times and USA Today bestseller
and has been translated into twenty-seven languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kasa on June 17, 2019

Down on the farm, where life revolves around the husbandry of animals if not of people, something awful happened in 1978, and the book goes back and forth between present day and then. I wasn't as put off as some readers by the downbeat tone, -- it is Scandinavia after all, and Karl Ove Knausgård ha......more

Goodreads review by Ken on June 20, 2019

Agnete Friis Made a story so lifelike that it almost scared me with its realism. With changes here and there it could have happened in real life, in my case it really happened but with no Lise. Several guys and I worked on a dairy farm haying, I learned to drive there on hay trucks, and tractors of......more

Goodreads review by Silvia on May 30, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock once said that a thriller is a whodunit, an intellectual process, but suspense is an emotional one. Friis knows this — and slowly, slowly takes us by the hand and draws us into a seductive, and dangerous, summer. Full review: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on May 13, 2019

There are good reasons why Jacob has not been back to his uncle Anton's farm in the Jutland since 1978. Told in dual time line - 1978 and sort of the present- this is a dark tale of bad things that happened on that farm. Anton, now very old, wants Jacob to find out what happened to Ellen, a young hi......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on June 09, 2019

Yuck!! I really do not even have words. I’m not sure if it’s the author or the translation- but I juts found the book coarse. Like a bunch of middle school boys putting down all the dirty words they knew. Gratuitously violent and profane.......more

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