“Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. I just loved this sweeping, layered, and deeply moving book full of complex characters and dark secrets.”
The Glass Key is a breathtaking, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love, loss and secrets. Perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah, Eve Chase and Lucinda Riley.
In Ireland, Maggie has grown up hearing her mother tell her the bedtime story of The Glass Key. It's a Nordic fairytale passed down by Maggie's grandmother Anna Swan, who mysteriously left her home one stormy night years ago, never to return. Now Maggie's grandfather has died and going through his things, Maggie is shocked to discover a faded wartime letter, asking him to take in a baby. In that moment she realises that Anna Swan was a woman of many secrets.
Only by travelling to Norway and discovering the story of four brave young women whose lives were forever changed by the occupation of their tiny islands, can Maggie uncover the shocking truth about her family - and finally unlock the mystery of the glass key...
As epic as the Norwegian landscape it so vividly describes, The Glass Key is a sweeping journey of a novel that will stay with you for ever.
Dear Reader,
The inspiration for The Glass Key came during the royal wedding, April 2011.
As Kate and Wills walked down the aisle, my soon-to-be husband and I walked onto an isle, a 52-acre Norwegian one, one hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle.
It was for sale.
It was love at first sight.
We were 29.
“A gorgeous novel. Ambitious in scale, beautifully written, layered and twisty - and a fascinating historical deep-dive! I loved it.”
“In Geard’s latest novel, her love of nature and Nordic beauty shines through her immersive and glittering prose.”
“Beautifully written and brimming with mystery, family secrets, and heart.”
“Delightful, fast-paced read, crafted with mastery – the plot is like an addictive Russian honey cake with layer upon layer of intrigue”
