When the Cranes Fly South

A tender tale about ageing, our own and others, and the quiet brutality of love. About what being a man is, and what being a human is, about fathers and sons and fathers and dogs. It’s really a book for anyone who’s had to say goodbye. The kind of book you give to someone when you’re really trying to say “I’ve been thinking about you” but don’t know how. * Fredrik Backman, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove * This novel is irresistible. So tender and moving. It’s as if Fredrik Backman’s Ove had a love child with Åsa Larsson’s Sivving – and the result is the most wonderful thing imaginable. Read it. * Malin Persson Giolito, internationally bestselling author of Quicksand and Beyond all reasonable doubt * A powerful, sneakily emotional meditation on life and death, and the foundational relationships in our lives. This is a book that will echo in your soul. * Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain *

Lisa Ridzen’s debut novel, When the Cranes Fly South, was inspired by notes left by her Grandfather’s care team as he neared the end of his life, and by her research into masculinity in the rural communities of the Swedish far north. Lisa was raised in this area and now lives in a small village outside Östersund. She began writing the novel while attending Långholmen Writer’s Academy. When the Cranes Fly South was a number one bestseller in Sweden, won the Swedish Book of the Year, and the Adlibris prize for Debut and Fiction of the Year. Rights have sold in 34 languages around the world.