From bageri (bakery) to vitsippa (wood anemone) via Björn Borg, Saab and smörgåsbord, Stephen Keeler delights us with 50 words that capture the essence of his love affair with Sweden.
Keeler has written a deeply companionable book about the ways we know each other and the ways we can fall in love with places not our own. Deft, detailed, gently humorous and kind; it’s just enough. Lagom, in fact.
A L Kennedy With a poet’s eye for the telling detail, Stephen Keeler has brought the Sweden of my childhood vividly to life in this charming and idiosyncratic memoir… a joy from beginning to end. Marika Cobbold |
50 Words for Love in Swedishby Stephen Keeler
Newly-qualified as a teacher in 1973, Stephen chanced upon an advert in the Times Educational Supplement and soon found himself whisked to Mariestad in Sweden to teach English.
Over the intervening decades he fell in love with the country and its polite, generous and loving people. This book charts his life there through 50 words: objects, places and people. As Marika Cobbold says: a joy from beginning to end. Paperback £8.99
Publication date: 20 September 2021 Language: English Print length: 160 pages ISBN 978-1-9997637-4-9 (paperback) Item weight: 505g Reading age: 12 – adult Dimensions: 216 x 135mm |
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