Hanna Madelene 3

Hanna Madelene 3

A Novella – Nr 3 in the Trilogy about Hanna Madelene

Chicago, 1940s. Hanna Madelene lives between worlds — mother, wife, and gifted violinist, yet marked since childhood by silence, difference, and a mind that often drifts beyond reach. When trauma shatters the fragile order she has built, her dissociation leads her back across the ocean, to Sweden and the riverbanks of her birth.

There, within the walls of Restad Gård asylum, reality bends and blurs. Folklore creatures she once saw as a child — vättar, trolls, even Näcken himself — begin to shimmer through the edges of her days. Is it madness, or memory? Grief, or grace?

Told in raw, lyrical prose, Hanna Madelene 3 is the final part of the trilogy—a haunting, tender closing movement in the life of a woman marked by autism, trauma, and visions others could not see.

A story of myth and memory, of silence and survival, and of the fragile, holy line between this world and the next.

For readers of Tove Ditlevsen, Maggie O’Farrell, and those who have ever stood on the threshold between fear and freedom.