A humorous and sensitive story about friendship, love, and the serious things that are part of growing up for all teenagers.
Manda and Malin are best friends. Their days are filled with daydreams of exciting adventures and romantic love. They live in a small town where nothing special happens, but when the most handsome boy Manda has ever met starts working at a nearby pizzeria, she sees an opportunity for life to finally become more interesting. But of course, not everything is as simple as she imagines.
Swedish writer Ellen Strömberg (1987) is one of the most popular bloggers among Swedish-speaking Finns. In this book, she perfectly captures the time when you are still very young, but you think you are very grown up, a time when everything seems possible. With humor and special sensitivity, she talks about serious things that are part of growing up for all adolescents. The novel was nominated for several awards, and in 2022 it received the August Award for the best Swedish children's and young adult book. (taken from the general page of the Mladinska knjiga publishing house)