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The Stone with Violets

Norwegian title: Hansine

Inger Harriet Hegstad

One morning a baby girl is found abandoned on the doorstep at Gronvoll farm. It turns out the baby is of Gypsy blood and has a deformed foot. At Gronvoll, the girl is taken care of by the spinster Gurine and given the name Hansine. Life in the mid 1800s is far from blissful at Gronvoll, but Hansine grows up to become a wise and beautiful young woman, and, as it turns out, she appears to have supernatural powers ... Hansine struggles to fit in with the locals who never quite approve of her, and one day she vanishes.

12 books, 6 books will be published in 2010.