Family brings the young woman back to the Faroe Islands - the windswept, rocky northern archipelago where she has never lived but which she has always called home. There she finds her stories entwining with those of her ancestors as she searches for a way to connect with the culture and her kin. Is 'home' just a place name, or something more? Split across three generations of a Faroese family, rooted in the wild beauty of the islands and the author's own history, this is a bewitching tale of exile, homecoming, and what it means to belong.

"Talks about places as if they were people, of fjords as if they were the wrinkles of our souls" - Grazia

"A fictional history of a family's connection to the Faroe Islands over three generations... captures well the tension between wanting to belong and resisting conformity" - Irish Times

"A sensitive meditation on belonging" - Kirkus Reviews

"An ode to the legends we still need" - La Repubblica

"Dense and evocative, and manages to combine organic and lifeless matter with the fantastic" - Wired.it

"There are memories of events we never lived but that belong to us nevertheless. It's the family memories, told in silent moments which are full of meaning. Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen, whose grandparents come from the Faroe Islands, has many of those memories and she tells them with a prose that is as deep as the sea surrounding everything (and everyone)" - Corriere della Sera

"Spare but dazzling prose: the reader is literally transported within a world which seems suspended in time, a natural fortress in which even the fjords and the leaves of grass have a soul" - L'Indice