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“An absolutely fantastic debut novel.”—Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove
A deeply atmospheric debut novel about three young people testing the boundaries of intimacy that is being hailed as “the love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited.”
When Hugo takes a room in the house of one of Stockholm’s wealthiest families, he unwittingly invites himself into the lives of people he will be unable to forget: Thora, a beautiful descendant of old money, and her childhood best friend August, who dreams of art. None of them have anything in common, but find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other.
Decades later, a young woman shows up on Hugo’s door in New York one morning, hoping to stay with him. She introduces herself as the child of Thora and August, and comes carrying questions about her parents that send Hugo reeling back to his youth—to two euphoric summers in Stockholm, and people to whom he is now a stranger.
Timelessly familiar, tender and exultant, The Trio is a novel about the choices we could have made. About who we may have been, and the relationships that influence and linger on with us, long after they have come to an end.
★ “One of the novel's pleasures is the way Hedman compresses challenging themes into her work. … The Trio is an appealing story of a romantic triangle from a gifted author.”—Michael Magras, Shelf Awareness (starred)
“Sublime.”—Michelle Hart, Electric Literature
“Approach The Trio with caution: you might catch yourself relocating to Stockholm in search of candlelight, coffee shops and snow-bound sexual tension.”—The Sunday Times
“A smart, elegant and moving novel, all the more impressive for it being Johanna Hedman's debut... The stylish emotional distance of Normal People.”—The Times
“Sharp, vividly imagined and affecting in a way that both intrigues and captivates.”—Irish Times
“Fans of Sally Rooney will adore this excellent novel, which has garnered rave reviews.”—The Bookseller
“[The Trio] is a beautiful, dreamy novel that is set in Berlin, New York, and Stockholm, and also thinks a lot about language and what it means to your identity to move between different places . . . I loved it immediately when I first started working on it.”—Kira Josefsson
“The Trio is like the love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited. A sublime and elegiac mediation on love, intimacy, freedom and jealousy, it elegantly explores the gulf between our interior lives and the personas we perform - and between ourselves and other people. Hedman's writing (and Josefsson's stunning translation) is staggeringly beautiful. Vivid, effortless, and perceptive to a molecular degree”—Francesca Reece, author of Voyeur
“Delicate and beguiling... The Trio spans from Berlin to London to Paris as the [characters] continually renegotiate who they each are to each other, questions of ownership and privilege floating in the background of summers which feel both fleeting and endless.”—Esquire
“Full of verve, nostalgia, longing and the claustrophobic euphoria of being in the world with the people you love, this gorgeous novel whisks you along with it; you have no choice but to gratefully follow.”—Lara Williams, author of Supper Club
“An international success before even being published, The Trio is a novel that stands well above the hype... Elegiac, bittersweet, [with] the golden shimmer of nostalgia, it is a story about big emotions.”—Gefle Dagblad