Truth or Dare

Maria Adolfsson

A new exciting chapter in Maria Adolfsson’s impressive authorship!

Astrid Lindäng has always done the right thing—as an employee, as a wife and mother, and a standup citizen. Yet one day, she finds herself in court, sentenced to a large fine and anger management therapy.

In therapy, she starts telling the whole story, seeking answers to how so many things could go wrong so fast. Recently, she got divorced. Her husband unexpectedly packed his bags and left her for another woman. He didn’t even have the decency to pick someone younger!

But wait, wasn’t it when she got hit by lightning – actual lightning – that she decided life is just too damn short? For a while, she was high on life. Sure, her adult kids were calling her erratic for buying a leopard-printed coat and grabbing life by the balls, and yes, she might have gotten fired, but so

what?

For a while, things seemed to be going better than ever for Astrid. Until she got tempted to get even… Through the therapy sessions and Astrid’s self-examination, this thrillingly

unexpected and brilliantly funny story unfolds piece by piece.

Maria Adolfsson’s ‘Doggerland’ series has previously been published in 20 countries. With this change of genre, Maria proves that she fully masters the skill of keeping the reader in equal measure of suspense in an upmarket literary novel about an ordinary woman who stops being so damn compliant. There is a Meg Wolitzer-esque quality to Truth or Dare that feels refreshing in Swedish literature.