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| The Heart Keeper | |
| Author: | Alex Dahl |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Nordic noir psychological novel |
| Publisher: | Head of Zeus (UK) Berkley Books (US) |
| Pub Date: | 2019 |
| Media Type: | Paperback |
| Isbn: | 9780451491817 |
The Heart Keeper is a 2019 Nordic noir psychological novel by Norwegian author Alex Dahl. It was published in English in 2019 by Berkley Books, a Penguin Random House imprint.[1] Set in Norway, it tells the story of the loss of a child through the eyes of two different women.[2] [3] Critic Paul Burke described it as "a powerful study of grief and loss, guilt, recriminations, trauma and PTSD, and survival."[4] Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet described Dahl in 2019 as a new star of Nordic noir literature.[5]
Dahl attributes the inspiration for The Heart Keeper to "an incident years ago when the life of her first child was saved by the neo-natal care unit at Ullevål University Hospital."