About the author

Mats Strandberg (born 1976) is a Swedish author.

Strandberg has been a columnist in Aftonbladet. His debut novel was Jaktsäsong, published in 2006. His young adult fantasy novel Cirkeln, the first book in the Engelsfors trilogy written together with Sara Bergmark Elfgren and published in 2011, was an August Prize nominee in the youth literature category.

Strandberg has also written horror novels. In 2015, his novel Färjan, which is set on board a Baltic Sea cruiseferry, was published. It was translated into English as Blood Cruise and published in the UK by Jo Fletcher Books. Hemmet, about a residential care home haunted by ghosts, was published in 2017; Slutet, a preapocalyptic young adult novel about the final few weeks of life on Earth before a comet destroys all life, was released in 2018 and received very positive reviews in Dagens Nyheter and SVT.

Strandberg is married to the actor Johan Ehn.

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Hjemmet

Joel er modvilligt rejst tilbage til den lille by, han voksede op i. Han er nødt til at være forælder for sin mor, Monika, som nu skal flytte ind på demensplejehjemmet Fyrreskyggen.  På hjemmet arbejder Joels barndomsveninde Nina. De har ikke talt med hinanden, siden Joel flyttede for tyve år siden, og deres smertefulde afsked plager stadig dem begge to.  Monika bliver hurtigt dårligere, da hun flytter ind på afdeling D. Hun får voldsomme anfald. Hun ser ting, der ikke er der. Og hun kender til hændelser, hun ikke burde kende til. Det er næsten, som om noget ukendt har taget bolig i hende. Sådan er det med mange af hjemmets beboere.  Langsomt går det op for Joel og Nina, at der er andet og mere end demens på spil. De er nu nødt til at danne fælles front for at redde Monika og sig selv. HJEMMET er en hjertegribende gyser.
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Publish date31 Oct 2017
Published byModtryk
Languagedan
ISBN audio9788771468571