Butterflies in November
A hilarious and moving road trip around Iceland in an old car, told by a recently divorced woman with a boy 'on loan'
After a day of being dumped - twice - and accidentally killing a goose, the narrator begins to dream of tropical holidays far away from the chaos of her current life. Instead, she finds her plans wrecked by her best friend's deaf-mute son, thrust into her reluctant care. But when a shared lottery ticket nets the two of them over 40 million kroner, she and the boy head off on a road trip across Iceland, taking in cucumber-farming hotels, dead sheep, and any number of her exes desperate for another chance. Blackly comic and uniquely moving, Butterflies in November is an extraordinary, hilarious tale of motherhood, relationships and the legacy of life's mistakes.
Translated by Brian FitzGibbon
Cover illustration by Petra Börner
304 pp
Published 41585
ISBN 9781782270102
C-Format Trade Paperback
