This week, we’re off to Norway to meet Natalie. She writes cosy and contemporary novels as well as historical and other genres. That particular word – “hygge” – that we’ve come to know, springs to mind when I look at the cover below.
Natalie is on book number seventy-one… which I find simply amazing. Let’s read a short extract from one of the books she has written in English:
From Summer Island
“With the warm mug in her hand, Ninni went outside and sat down on the step to enjoy the silence and the wind – the smell of the island, she thought, and took a deep breath. Salty seawater and freshly cut grass, the sweet scent from the early blossoms on the old apple tree and the sharper scent from the juniper bushes by the road made her close her eyes for a moment. It was so good to be here, so safe. Perhaps she would never leave. Perhaps that would make her feel like herself again.“
Natalie tells us that Summer Island was amongst her first books written in English, and she had no idea what to write in the beginning. Then she realised that she loves Norwegian summers, and she wanted to share that.
The island is made up of islands she’s been on, and it served as the perfect setting for a place to heal broken hearts.
Oh wow! LOVE that, Natalie.
She shares photos of the island with us and tells me that the summers there are like those of Scotland. I was intrigued when I read the caption “Utsira”… I’ve heard that place mentioned so often on weather forecasts on the radio. But I didn’t realise it was in Norway. Another destination to add to my ever-growing bucket list.
The first two photographs are of Utsira and the third is Haugesund, summer
Bio
Natalie Normann is a prolific author, who has written stories across several genres. Since publishing her first historical romance novel in 1995, she has written also written thrillers and children’s books. From 2007 she wrote Historical Romance series in Norwegian. 2023 she published book #71.
Her ‘A Very Hygge Holiday books’; Summer Island and Christmas Island are her first books in English. The stories are cosy, contemporary romances set on a lovely, windy island on the West Coast of Norway.
At the moment she’s working on a new, exciting project historical romance novel, also in English, and can’t wait to share it with everyone.
Thanks, Natalie! Or should that be “takk”. 😉 And good luck with bringing us your novels in English. How talented you are.
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