Agneta Pleijel

What do men want? How is it possible to fulfil their desires, based on their dream of what a woman should be? And how can you escape a marriage that is not your own, but your parents’?

It is natural as time passes to re-evaluate our relationship with our late parents.

The most recent work by veteran Swedish author Agneta Pleijel is an engaging novel centring on the real-life meeting in 1969 between Agatha Christie and the Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka

The Queen's Surgeon is the first part of a family history that draws on aspects of Agneta Pleijel's own history, discussing power, gender and insatiable ambition.
Translated by Silvester Mazzarella

A curated list of compelling historical fiction, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.

Agneta Pleijel's historical fiction demonstrates elegantly how history can aid maturity through observing and identifying with the humanity of shadowy figures from the past.

Agneta Pleijel's historical fiction demonstrates elegantly how history can aid maturity through observing and identifying with the humanity of shadowy figures from the past.

Agneta Pleijel's historical novel, set in the eighteenth century, is a study in childbirth.