The new students have arrived from all over; in cars, by train and bus, they have been left here with all their belongings, and they’ve spread out all over the hallways, taken over the rooms, filled them with their posters, their stereos, perfume, candles and dreams.

They’ll Return in the Autumn is a novel set at the folk high school in Sandvik, about being the child of a teacher, about writing. It’s about the unsure and the sincere, those who stand staring at the stars with their father, those who walk around waiting for the world to end. It’s about finding one another and hanging lanterns in the trees.