Eulalia Starwind

"Eulalia lived in the old abandoned house in The Clearing that summer so very many years ago, but where she went from there I really don't know. Actually, this book is all I know and ever knew about her. Eulalia said she was `the laughter and the silence around it´ and `that thing you never missed until you found it´. And it's sure hard to describe her better - but now I've tried." Eulalia Starwind is a fairytale for all ages. Readers young and old have been blown away by this story about a boy on summer vacations with his grandmother on a small island in the Baltic Sea - and about his make-believe (?) friend. It's a heart-rending yet hopeful tale of friendship between and within generations, of loneliness and imagination, of mystery and the power of language. Or as Kalle, 7, stated: "This is even better than Roald Dahl!" Niklas Aurgrunn, the author, is the now middle-aged dreamer who has been looking for Eulalia ever since that summer when he was seven years old. He says he still does not know how to fly but does consider himself quite the expert lost-getter.