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New Swedish Books 20 The Family Ella lives with t
he Family on the Farm. The Family is run by Father. He makes sure that the food is blessed by the sun and that nothing from the outside, nothing poisoned, slips through the fence that surrounds them. You must do everything right if you’re to survive the ‘Collapse’. One day Ella notices a boy on the other side of the fence. He must be one of the ‘Losts’. But then why does he look so suntanned and healthy? What he tells Ella about the world is the opposite of what Father has taught them. Ella must try and find out what’s true. The Family is a novel about loyalty, friendship and life changing decisions that keeps the reader in an iron grip from the first page to the last. No one is left untouched. Cecilia Lidbeck has written several acclaimed children’s novels, and The Family is her strongest to date. During 2020 it has been nominated both for The Children’s Radio’s Prize and the Crimetime Award’s Prize for The Best Children’s Novel. Cecilia Lidbeck The jury: A depiction of growing up in a cult and life afterwards, that gets under your skin. It also makes the reader understand the lure of belonging to a cult. Children’s fiction, 9–12 years, 188 p. Cecilia Lidbeck Publisher Lilla Piratförlaget Rights Lilla Piratförlaget Linda Widman linda@lillapiratforlaget.se Photo: Siri Lidbeck