Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Someone to Watch Over Me

She grabbed at her chest as if to calm her rapid heartbeat and stood there like that, frozen, waiting for it to slow down. Then she noticed that frost had begun to creep slowly but surely over the windowpane, clouding her view out into the darkness.

Last Rituals

My Soul to Take

Ashes to Dust

The Day is Dark

I Remember You

Yrsa Sigurdardóttir works as a civil engineer in Reykjavik. Her books for children have won prizes and great acclaim. Someone to Watch Over Me is her sixth adult novel.

Philip Roughton is a highly respected translator of Icelandic literature, having translated works by the Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness, among others. He lives in Reykjavik.

First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Hodder & Stoughton

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Copyright © Yrsa Sigurdardóttir 2013

English translation © Philip Roughton 2013

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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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