Agnes Cecilia

Maria Gripe’s Agnes Cecilia is one of the most classic and widely read Swedish young adult novels. A ghost story that is just as eerie today as when it was first published.

Nora has a creeping feeling of something inexplicable, of someone suddenly standing behind her. When did she first get that feeling? Nora doesn’t know. The mysterious footsteps that can be heard in the apartment, the strange phone calls, the sad doll, and the walks to the garden of the deserted house where her dog Ludde pulls her as soon as they go out – what does it all mean? Ever so slowly, she begins to realise that someone outside of time and space may be reaching out …