Ane Riel - Resin

The lady with the white name badge is also nice. She leaves me alone whenever I ask her to, and she lets me sit with my teddy, as long as I don’t sit too close to her. It says ‘Else’ on her name badge, just as it would have done on my granny’s name badge – that is, if she’d had one. I’m going to need time to get used to calling her Else, but that’s quite all right, she says. Things take the time they need.

Carl is no longer quite as sad as he was when we first got here.

And, yes, the container went up in flames, along with everything else. It means that my baby sister’s coffin burned as well. It’s OK, though, because I managed to take the most important things with me. I have them right here. The drawing and the hourglass and Robin Hood and the ant in the amber.

And Carl.

And my baby sister, too. You see, on the day it all happened, I had just finished sewing her inside my teddy bear. That’s why it smells of resin.

But we won’t tell anyone about that.

ANE RIEL has won Scandinavia’s four most prestigious literary awards for her novel Resin , which has been a bestseller around the world.

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