For years, Disa has lived a quiet life, managing an English country-house hotel with her close companion Anthony. However, upon learning that she is terminally ill, Disa decides it is time to travel back to the village in Iceland where she was born. With enormous sensitivity, Olaf Olafsson takes the reader with Disa on her quietly heroic journey. As she goes north, across the seas, events she has spent most of her life trying to forget are slowly revealed. Turned away by her mother, her young fiancee murdered by the Nazis, Disa was left to find refuge as a cook in a wealthy household seething with both sexual and political violence. Irrevocably scarred by the consequences, only now can she attempt to find a resolution.
