Flora and a small group of friends soon find themselves at the onset of an apocalyptic battle between man and nature, with no one believing their story. What she learns changes everything, and she has to race against time to prevent the killings from spreading. Instead, she suspects that the deaths are somehow connected to her younger sister Fauna’s tragic accident a year earlier. Flora is convinced that Carl is innocent. Matters get worse when more people from her small town are found dead under mysterious circumstances and police take an interest in the boy next door, Carl. The second installment of The NI Revolution Trilogy, The Oaken Queen, will be released in the spring of 2023.įogelberg’s writing has been featured in The Huffington Post, Writer’s Digest, First For Women, Women’s World, We Heart Writing, She Writes, and Women Writers, Women’s Books.Perfect for fans of Stranger Things and A History of Wild Places, this 'masterful debut novel tells an epic tale of love, loss, and profound connection.with lyrical prose and heart-racing action' ( USA Today best-selling Author Terri Giuliano Long).įlora Reed discovers a lifeless body in her front yard the morning after the last day of her junior year of high school.

It became an instant Amazon bestseller and was released as audiobook by Fireside Audio, narrated by Austenne Grey. Beautiful Affliction is released as audiobook by Tantor Media, narrated by Henrietta Meire, and translated into German and published by Bastei Lübbe with the title Mein Glück kann jeden Tag zerbrechen.įogelberg’s debut YA novel The Lightning Tree was published March 29, 2022. After eight years in Southeast Asia, she moved back to Sweden with her family.Īn award-winning poet in Sweden, Fogelberg has always felt drawn to writing in English and switched language when writing the memoir Beautiful Affliction, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, a national gold medalist in the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards, and a finalist in the 2015 USA Best Book Awards and the 2016 International Book Awards. Always curious, Fogelberg has embraced opportunities to study and live abroad, in France, Germany, the USA, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Growing up in a small town on the Swedish west coast, Lene Fogelberg developed a love of poetry and reading, nurtured by the rural surroundings of her childhood. She went on to study languages and creative writing at the University of Gothenburg and the Stockholm Academy of Writing.

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