The Trio

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERNARD SHAW PRIZE 2023<BR><BR>Elegant, mature and richly atmospheric, a bittersweet love story glimpsed through the veil of memory<BR><BR>'The love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited... Sublime and elegiac' Francesca Reece<BR><BR>'[A] heady mix of hope and nostalgia, of desire and regret, of new love and lost love' Sunday Times<BR><BR>Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds. One is an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old-world 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.<BR><BR>Years later, Hugo is long estranged from Thora and August when their daughter knocks on his door. She has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories of those luminous days of youth come flooding back.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>'Remarkably assured... Sharp, vividly imagined and affecting, [it] intrigues and captivates' Irish Times<BR><BR>'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' Gefle Dagblad