Dearest Friends

Over 200 000 copies sold over the series so far!

The year is 1949 and Betty is turning thirty. She celebrates her birthday with her husband, children, family and friends, grateful for how lovely her life is at this very moment. The marriage with Olof is based on kindness and friendship, together they have had a son named Anders. Betty works in her bookstore, runs as small publishing house, and has the main responsibility for the household. She also decides to get a driver’s license.

But not everything is carefree, and soon new troubles seem to come knocking. Betty often feels inadequate as Olof begins to withdraw from their solidarity, and she cannot help but missing their intimacy. Her daughter Martina is predicted to have a brilliant future as a singer, but when her biological father Martin Fischer, Betty’s great true love, wants contact, Betty becomes deeply worried. At the same time, the financial worries starts piling up and when Betty also falls out with her best friend Viola, nothing is the same anymore.

DEAREST FRIENDS is a story about caring greatly about love and friendship and how easily it can be lost, but it is also a story about how true friendship can emerge when and where you least expect it.

This is the third book in the beloved ‘Betty’ series by Katarina Widholm.
All books in the ‘Betty’ series have been on top of the bestseller lists and Katarina has been nominated for Book of the Year Award, Storytel Awards and Adlibris Reader’s Choice Award.

Praise for the series:

‘With perfect sensitivity, Katarina takes the reader back to Sweden in wartime, with music, films, shops, restaurants and the celebrities of the time as a backdrop. A great novel for binge reading!’
Expressen

‘Katarina Widholm has put her whole soul into trying to create a true depiction of what life could be like for young poor girls in the 1930s. As a portrayal of society, the novel gets the highest ranking, and as a feelgood novel she gets just as high marks.’
Ölandsbladet

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