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My Beating Heart

Norwegian title: Mitt bankande hjarte

My beating heart deals with life at its finest and also its most awful. Amanda is fourteen years old and in love. At the same time, a dangerous illness threatens to rob her of everything: love and hope of being loved, life itself. But this is not a story about illness. It is a love story. What is it like for a young girl in love to be waiting for a heart transplant?

‘My beating heart is both a description of illness and an extremely well told love story. … It is realistic, sad and romantic at the same time.’ Litteraturavisen Bokstaver ‘Alf Kjetil Walgermo creates a dramatic story filled with hope and doubt – the sometimes optimistic alternating with increasingly depressive periods. … That reader hardly exists who is unaffected – and who does not feel the strain on the body it is to live in uncertainty everyday – when one is young and should have a long life to live. … My beating heart has an intense nerve – written with empathy and insight.’ Gjengangeren ‘A beautiful and funny book to get wiser from.’ Stavanger Aftenblad ‘My beating heart philosophizes on the relation body and soul in such a simple way, so elegantly. … Alf Kjetil Walgermo has written a book with both heart and brain.’ Barnebokkritikk

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