The Strawberry Girl
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  • Published: 7 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473546134
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 54 min
  • Narrator: Jo Woodcock
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Strawberry Girl

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7 Apr 2016
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7 Apr 2016
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15 Jun 2017
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The story of the love affair that inspired Edvard Munch to paint ‘The Scream’.

Summer 1893, and the Norwegian fishing village of Åsgårdstrand is preparing for the arrival of well-to-do guests and bohemian artists from the city. Local girl Johanne Lien dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot for painters as ‘The Strawberry Girl’.

Johanne becomes a maid for the wealthy Ihlen family, whose wayward daughter Tullik recruits her as a go-between in her pursuit of the controversial painter Edvard Munch. Before long, Johanne is drawn into the raw emotion of Munch’s art and his secret liaison with Tullik. But when she is asked to hide more than just secrets, Johanne must decide whether to take the risk…

Lisa Stromme brings alive the tumultuous love affair that inspired one of the most famous paintings of all time, in a vivid and bewitching story of innocence, creativity and desire.
  • Published: 7 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473546134
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 54 min
  • Narrator: Jo Woodcock
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Lisa Stromme

Lisa Strømme was born in Yorkshire in 1973, and studied at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She lives with her Norwegian husband and their two children close to Åsgårdstrand, the coastal village where Edvard Munch had a summer home, and which provided the setting for The Strawberry Girl.
The Strawberry Girl is her first novel.

portrait photo of Lisa Stromme

Praise for The Strawberry Girl

An altogether painterly book, full of vividly evocative scenes

Anthony Gardner, Mail on Sunday

Bewitching debut novel… It’s a vivid, intoxicating blend of fact and fiction, desire and creativity. If you’re passionate about art, you’ll love it – and if you didn’t think you were remotely interested in it, you will be by the end of it

Pool

A tale of lost innocence, the power of art and the pain of love

Sunday Express

The raw power of colour is emphasised again and again

Cath Sell, Nudge

A lovely, poignant, evocative novel. Delicious

Saga Magazine

This is a creative mix of fact, and fiction and readers should find themselves swept up in this intriguing story. Art lovers will adore it and those that know nothing about art will wish they knew more.

Jennifer McShane, Image

Lusciously atmospheric, nuanced and wonderfully readable

Jini Ready, Resurgence & Ecologist
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