The Ice People 1 - Spellbound

The Ice People 1: SpellboundVolume 1 in Margit Sandemo?s breathtaking series about The Ice PeopleThe Legend of the Ice People series has already captivated 39 million readers across Europe. In the year 1581, a girl at seventeen, Silje, experiences how the plague strikes her entire family. Famished a [...]
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The Ice People 1: SpellboundVolume 1 in Margit Sandemo?s breathtaking series about The Ice PeopleThe Legend of the Ice People series has already captivated 39 million readers across Europe. In the year 1581, a girl at seventeen, Silje, experiences how the plague strikes her entire family. Famished and freezing, and with two orphaned children to take care of, she approaches the bonfires outside Trondheim to regain the warmth of her body.Oddly enough, there is only one person offering to help Silje in this hour of need: Tengel, a man of the Ice People, whom Silje finds brutish and intimidating ? but also immensely charming.The story of the Ice People is a moving legend of love and supernatural powers, a tale of the crucial struggle between good and evil.

Reviews:?Margit Sandemo is, simply, quite wonderful.? ? Emine Saner, The GuardianFull of convincing characters, well established in time and place, and enlightening? will get your eyes popping, and quite possibly groins twitching? these are graphic novels without pictures? I want to know what happens next.? ? Christina Hardyment, The TimesA mixture of myth and legend interwoven with historical events, this is imaginative creation that involves the reader form the first page to the last.? ? Anne Oughton, Historical Novels ReviewLoved by the masses, the prolific Margit Sandemo has written over 172 novels to date and is Scandinavia?s most widely read author.? ? Mia Gahne, Scanorama MagazineMargit Sandemo was born on April 23, 1924 in Norway; however, she was raised in Sweden and later moved back to Norway as an adult. She made her debut as an author in 1964. The Legend of the Ice People, 47 volumes in total, appeared 1982-1989. The trademark of her authorship is love and supernatural powers. Margit Sandemo?s books have sold more than 39 million copies worldwide. Margit Sandemo is thus the author in the Nordic countries with the greatest number of sold books.