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  • Published: 15 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781405994910
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

The Corpses We Planted



Gleefully sacrilegious, brilliantly disturbing - a mordant and bloody tale of rural unease and female revenge

‘It has been said of our village that there are perverts and paedophiles lurking behind every bush. Whatever the truth of that claim, you would have to admit that we turned out rather well.’

Jolly and Peggy were toddlers when their parents died in a car crash. They were brought by a distant relative to a remote village in southern Sweden and given to strangers to raise. Unfortunately the strangers in question turned out to be alcoholic reprobates, and the village in question turned out to be a hotspot for creeps, sadists and psychos.

Growing up in this regrettable predicament, the sisters spend their time lurking around the mobile library, chatting up the parish priest, and befriending the local oddballs - much to the frustration of their foster mother, Jenni. Jenni is far from a model foster parent but she is determined to protect her girls from the parade of sinister weirdos they are inexplicably drawn toward. Until one day a grisly double-murder is discovered in the town, the culprit unidentified and still at large – and Jenni decides to take matters into her own hands...

  • Published: 15 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781405994910
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

About the author

Lina Wolff

Lina Wolff is the author of five novels and one collection of short fiction. Her most recent novel, The Corpses We Planted, won the August Prize, Sweden's highest literary honour, making Wolff only the third writer in history to receive that award twice. Her work has won many other awards, including the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Aftonbladet Literature Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize, and has been translated into seventeen languages. In 2026 she was awarded a Swedish Royal Medal (Litteris et Artibus) for her contributions to literature. Lina Wolff is also a literary translator and has translated the work of Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Samanta Schweblin, Cesar Aira and others. She was born and grew up in southern Sweden.

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Praise for The Corpses We Planted

Furiously entertaining and ingenious, Lina Wolff elicits laughter from the depths of despair

August Prize committee 2025

It has been a long time since I read something so eloquent, playful and heart-wrenching . . . The Corpses We Planted is a story that one doesn’t come across very often. It is tender and cruel, light and dark, burlesque and agonizing

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