Meet the Author: Maria Bouroncle

1. How did you feel when you found out about the case?

It Came to Me on a Whim tells the story of my great-aunt who killed her three children in a small Swedish village in 1929. The story and what happened that day was a well-kept family secret for seventy years.

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Text: Bridget Ball

Book Review – A tragic family secret that is most upsetting

On a March day in 1929, Artur Andersson leaves his family to gather firewood in the forest. When he returns home he finds his three children drowned in a copper wash tub. For 70 years the details of Ingeborg's actions have been a family secret but now her grand-niece Maria Bouroncle is telling her story.

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Text: Bridget Ball

Internationellt projekt vill öka mångfalden i barnlitteraturen

Det nystartade västsvenska projektet Läsning utan gränser sätter strålkastarljuset på barns läsande. Genom utbyte och samarbete hoppas man bland annat att kunna öka mångfalden i barnlitteraturen och skicka västsvenska barnboksdförfattare på export.

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Text: Annsofie Andersson

Foto: Lars Ardarve