It's Light and Outside the World is Turning

After this holiday, the plan is that a perfectly matured embryo will be implanted in Linn’s uterus, and she will finally realise her dream of being pregnant. She and her partner Matze have been invited on the holiday by Matze’s old school friend, Felix. A wealthy self-made man, Felix is footing the bill for the chic beachside Bungalow in the south of France. While Matze and Felix get drunk on crémant, go fishing, and try to ignore the status differences between them, the envy and reluctance between Linn and Felix’s wife Eva slowly give way to a fascination that brings the two closer together. While Linn feels torn between her burning desire to become a mother and her doubts about whether she has what it takes to be a »good« mother, Eva patiently digs in the sand with her son, rubbing in suncream, consoling him, and wiping grains of sand from his little baby eyes. And over the course of the holiday, between bowls of mussels and bottles of crémant, surreptitiously shared marijuana and whispered conversations, long-established preconceptions begin to totter, the rules begin to gently shift, and Eva and Linn become more than just friends: they become allies, accomplices.

A brilliant, powerful novel, as furious as it is gentle, about women’s self-determination, about bodies and who they belong to, about the desire to have children and the reality of life before and after they come.