The Heart Keeper

Alex Dahl
Berkley Books • 2019

Critically acclaimed author Alex Dahl explores how love can turn darkly sinister when a desperate mother looks to reconnect with her lost daughter in this riveting Norwegian set psychological suspense... novel.Two mothers. Two daughters. One heart. When Alison's beloved daughter Amalie drowns, her world turns impenetrably dark. Alison tries to hold it together throughout the bleak Fall, but in the darkest days of the Norwegian Winter she completely falls apart.In another family, Amalie's passing is a new beginning. After years of severe health problems, young Kaia receives a new heart on the morning after Amalie drowns. Her mother Iselin has struggled to raise Kaia on her own and now things are finally looking up. She's even made an affluent new friend who's taken a special interest in her and her daughter.Alison knows she shouldn't interfere, but really, she's just trying to help Iselin and Kaia. She can give them the life they never had, and by staying close to them, she can still be with her daughter. Kaia is just like her, and surely, something of Amalie must live on in her. As her grief transforms into a terrifying obsession, Alison won't let anything stop her from getting back what she has lost.
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AUTOR: Alex Dahl NÁZOV: Dievča s cudzím srdcom (The Heart Keeper) VYDAVATEĽSTVO: Slovenský spisovateľ (Head of Zeus Ltd.) ROK VYDANIA: 2020 (2019) POČET STRÁN: 368 PREKLAD: Lenka Cinková Dve matky. Dve dcéry. Jedno srdce. Keď sa Alisonina šesťročná dcéra Amalie utopí, jej svet sa ponorí do temnoty. Alison sa svoj žiaľ pokúša prekonať, no počas dlhých chladných dní nórskej zimy sa[...]

Alex Dahl sa na našom knižnom trhu predstavila knihou Chlapec pri dverách ktorá bola ponurá, ale skvelá. Slovenský spisovateľ prináša slovenským čitateľom aj jej druhý knižný počin. Dievča s cudzím srdcom. Obálka knihy pôsobí depresívne, anotácia znie skvelo. Ideálne čítanie na jeseň? Päťročná Amalie sa utopí a jej matka Alison sa s tým nevie zmieriť. Nepomáha ani psychiatrička, … Čítať ďalej[...]

Román Dievča s cudzím srdcom nie je ľahké čítanie, a v čitateľovi okrem napätia a mrazenia vyvolá aj silnú vlnu empatie, a to aj v prípade, že nie je práve citovo založený. Alex Dahl sa radí k autorkám, ktoré budujú príbeh na relatívne bežných situáciách, pri ktorých vám ani nenapadne, čo všetko sa môže stať. O to údernejšie potom daný román vyznieva. Mám dojem, že v poslednom čase ustupujú[...]

Critically acclaimed author Alex Dahl explores how love can turn darkly sinister when a desperate mother looks to reconnect with her lost daughter in this riveting Norwegian set psychological suspense novel.

Two mothers. Two daughters. One heart.

When Alison's beloved daughter Amalie drowns, her world turns impenetrably dark. Alison tries to hold it together throughout the bleak Fall, but in the darkest days of the Norwegian Winter she completely falls apart.

In another family, Amalie's passing is a new beginning. After years of severe health problems, young Kaia receives a new heart on the morning after Amalie drowns. Her mother Iselin has struggled to raise Kaia on her own and now things are finally looking up. She's even made an affluent new friend who's taken a special interest in her and her daughter.

Alison knows she shouldn't interfere, but really, she's just trying to help Iselin and Kaia. She can give them the life they never had, and by staying close to them, she can still be with her daughter. Kaia is just like her, and surely, something of Amalie must live on in her. As her grief transforms into a terrifying obsession, Alison won't let anything stop her from getting back what she has lost.