When do you know that it’s really over? Morris wonders. He tries hard to run away from the memory of Betty. He jogs the lit trail with Dad, loop after loop.
One day someone catches up with him on the trail: Lena. She is a new world, with a small mo ...
When do you know that it’s really over? Morris wonders. He tries hard to run away from the memory of Betty. He jogs the lit trail with Dad, loop after loop.
One day someone catches up with him on the trail: Lena. She is a new world, with a small mouth and fiery kisses. With Lena there is not that same sucking swirl toward the bottom. Not like with Betty. He doesn’t have to touch Lena to survive.
Morris travels with Dad and Lena to southern Sweden to train for the half marathon. The trip doesn’t end like any of them imagined.
Gunnar Ardelius received excellent reviews for his debut novel in 2006, Jag behöver dig mer än jag älskar dig och jag älskar dig så himla mycket (I need You More Than I Love You and I Love You To Bits), and was rewarded with Slangbellan, an annual prize awarded to a Swedish children’s debut novel.
Age: 12+
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Aschehoug, Norway