Books like Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
After her father's funeral, Clarissa Iverton discovers she was adopted and her long‑lost mother vanished fourteen years prior. With a fiancé who reveals a startling secret, she retreats to mystical Lapland, where an ice hotel becomes the setting for confronting her mother’s history. There, Clarissa must choose how and where to live the rest of her life.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Vendela Vida
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