We get to follow threee generations of women through a story set in the woodland of sweden and gothenburg. Hanna is born in teh 1860s in the middle of the forest. Bearing a child early in her life she has a hard time finding employment and is deemed unmarriable. But it seems fate has happy plans for Hanna. Her life is a hard working one and a tough one. and you just get on with it, she says.
Her daughter Johanna is born in the forest in the 1930s but raised in Gothenburg. She is a completlety different women, a new generation who have not lived through a world war but seen the result of one. She works in a store and has what you could call the start of feministik values. Her daughter Anna, is politically involved and a strong minded woman. She tells a tale of lost and refound love, what values she stands up for in a relationship and how you decide on your life.

It's a story of three strong women who fight their own battles in their own time and still manage to pass on strenght to their daughters, and somehow cant recognise the strength for their own. Fredriksson is a wonderful writer, she paints a beautiful landscape and makes the characters come alive. A good book which got me thinking, who generations change and always will.