NEW BEGINNINGS

Mellan himmel och hav – New Beginnings

by Anna Fredriksson

A family holds so many secrets. Sally has never received an answer as to why her mother left her when she was only three years old, and her pain from being abandoned remains over forty years later. Perhaps her despair feels even deeper because she only has sporadic contact with her adult daughter, Josefin.

One day, she inherits a big family house in the childhood summer paradise Kivik, in the middle of the countryside. This happens to be where Josefin is living and Sally decides to leave everything and move to Österlen to try to reconcile with her daughter.

But Sally’s good intentions come to a halt when it turns out that Sally’s own mother also lives in the neighborhood – and has a good relationship with her granddaughter, something Josefin has chosen not to tell Sally. Deeply shaken, Sally encounters her mother Vanja, an eccentric artist who neither wants to revisit her past or have any contact with her daughter.

Sally decides to be the kind of mother she never had. She also plans to open a guesthouse in her inherited summer paradise: Pomona Bed & Breakfast.

New Beginnings is a family portrait that takes place on Österlen in Skåne, where the landscape is as wide as the ocean and the light shimmering and bright.