Beloved Betty

Over 400 000 copies sold across the first three books!

The year is 1955 and four years have passed since Betty’s husband Olof died. Betty struggles with feelings of inadequacy and is weighed down by the burden of caring for the children Martina and Anders alone. She is also tackling guilt and shame over what happened in Copenhagen and how she left things off with Martin Fischer.

Betty has so far dealt with her inner anguish by pushing aside thoughts of Martin and forbidding the children to talk about Olof. But she also begins to realize that her life choices affect those closest to her. Perhaps especially Martina, who has left school to devote herself full-time to music and is quickly growing up.

When Martina receives an invite to sing at the opera in Venice, an invitation that is also extended to Betty, everything comes to a head. Betty is soon forced to come to grips with her past and decide what she really wants. But does she really dare to follow her innermost feelings?

Beloved Betty is the final part of the beloved ‘Betty’ series by Katarina Widholm. A true favourite among a devoted readership, all books in the series have been on top of the bestseller lists in Sweden, and Katarina has been nominated for Book of the Year Award, Storytel Awards and Adlibris Reader’s Choice Award several times.

The series has also been praised and loved by readers and critics in Finland, France, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and the Netherlands.

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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