The Strawberry Girl
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  • Published: 15 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784702175
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $27.99
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The Strawberry Girl

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EBook
7 Apr 2016
Audiobook
7 Apr 2016
Paperback
15 Jun 2017
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The story of the tumultuous love affair that inspired Edvard Munch to paint The Scream – ‘a bewitching debut novel’ The Pool

Summer 1893. In a small Norwegian fishing village, local girl Johanne dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot for painters as ‘The Strawberry Girl’.

When Johanne becomes a maid for the wealthy Ihlen family, their wayward daughter recruits her as a go-between in her pursuit of the controversial painter Edvard Munch. But when she is asked to hide more than just secrets, Johanne must decide whether to take the risk…
  • Published: 15 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784702175
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $27.99
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.

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