Used book – The Rage of Being Free: The Signe Trilogy, Kerstin Thorvall, Martine Desbureaux

Paris, 1947. Hoping to cure her daughter of her infatuation with her Prince Charming, Hilma sent Signe to Paris. The result of this stay was the opposite of her mother's hopes: it launched Signe's career as a fashion designer, making her the ambassador of the new look in Sweden, and led to a tempestuous love marriage with Lars-Ivar, the love of her life. Signe freed herself from her mother's yoke. Lars-Ivar, an artist still awaiting recognition, took care of the children. Didn't the impossible Signe have everything she needed to be happy? She started writing. For Lars-Ivar, this was the ultimate betrayal. In this third volume of Signe's story, through mortal anxieties, in rebellion but with an irreducible determination, it is the writer who emerges from her chrysalis, a woman who finally achieves full self-expression. A dramatic but never humorless narrative, a whimsical monologue. Kerstin Thorvall's biting nonconformism is a kind of personal revenge against the straitjacket of her puritanical upbringing. With the Signe trilogy (published in a single volume in 1999), of which Hilma's Sacrifice won the Moa Martinsson Prize, the critical wind turned and Kerstin Thorvall's talent was finally recognized.