The Angel House follows the lives of ordinary women in a small Swedish town from the late 1920s through World War II, exploring social changes and community dynamics.
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The Angel House follows the lives of ordinary women in a small Swedish town from the late 1920s through World War II, exploring social changes and community dynamics.
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The Angel House is the third in the remarkable series of free-standing novels that cemented Kerstin Ekman's reputation in her native Sweden during the 1970s, long before she achieved world-wide success with novels like Blackwater and The Forest of Hours. It follows the fortunes of the inhabitants of a provincial Swedish town familiar from the previous two books in the sequence, Witches' Rings and The Spring, from the late 1920s to the Second World War, when events beyond the boundaries of neutra...
What's Inside
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Romance & sex
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No sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Brief references to World War II disruptions and their impact on the town
Profanity
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No profanity or strong language
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation
Religious content
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No religious themes present
Magic & witchcraft
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No witchcraft or occult elements; note: separate book with same title includes mystical themes
Occult / demonology
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No evidence found in available sources.
Political content
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Subversive depiction of social and cultural changes in neutral Sweden during interwar period and WWII
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Recurring portrayals of gender inequality, domestic hardships, and systemic suffering for women
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