Sophisticated,mature and richly atmospheric,a debut novel about three young people navigating the risks and possibilities of intimacy.
Thora,August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer,one a wealthy scion of the old elite,and one an ordinary boy from out of town. But over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm,they are drawn together magnetically.
The novel opens years later,when Hugo,long estranged from Thora and August,is visited by their daughter - who has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories of those luminous days come flooding back.
Modern yet timeless,poignant and euphoric,The Trio is a novel about the path not taken,the people we might have become,and the relationships which shape and haunt us long after they come to a close.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241994627Number of pages: 336Weight: 234 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'The Trio is like the love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited. A sublime and elegiac mediation on love,intimacy,freedom and jealousy,it elegantly explores the gulf between our interior lives and the personas we perform - and between ourselves and other people. Hedman's writing (and Josefsson's stunning translation) is staggeringly beautiful. Vivid,effortless,and perceptive to a molecular degree'- Francesca Reece,author of Voyeur
'Wonderful. A celebration of real friendship,ill-fated love and the relationships which loom large over a lifetime. Fans of Sally Rooney will adore this excellent novel,which has garnered rave reviews'- The Bookseller
'Delicate and beguiling... The Trio spans from Berlin to London to Paris as the (characters) continually renegotiate who they each are to each other,questions of ownership and privilege floating in the background of summers which feel both fleeting and endless'- Esquire
'An international success before even being published,The Trio is a novel that stands well above the hype... elegiac,bittersweet,(with) the golden shimmer of nostalgia,it is a story about big emotions'- Gefle Dagblad
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