Miss Rennel Learns a Lesson
Clara Rennel has had her mission mapped out for a very long time: as a teacher she will dedicate her life to propagating her love for books to future generations. Supported by her literary heroines she is prepared to achieve great deeds in the name of reading. When her teenage crush Jonathan re-enters her life, miraculously single, it feels like things could hardly get any better. Her sister Paulina, however, voices her concerns regarding his intentions. But what does she know? Just because she, to everyone’s surprise, has managed to date a guy for more than a couple of weeks? A guy who, in addition, seems way too clever for her.
To Clara’s frustration, her teaching ambitions are not working out according to plan. Her pupils are more concerned with docusoaps, the parents are asking for the impossible, her colleagues are making life miserable and the principal seems clueless. Jonathan assures her that he has the solution to her woes, and soon the conscientious Clara has made radical adjustments to her original mission. Because she never planned to play truant, and she certainly never planned to fall for her sister’s new boyfriend.
Sara Molin (born 1983) lives in a suburb of Stockholm with her husband and three children. She teaches secondary school Swedish as well as Swedish for beginners and spends most of her free time devouring commercial fiction. Asking on Behalf of a Friend is her third novel. Molin has previously published Miss Rennel Learns a Lesson and An Unwanted…
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Denmark: Palatium, Germany: Heyne/DianaClara Rennel has had her mission mapped out for a very long time: as a teacher she will dedicate her life to propagating her love for books to future generations. Supported by her literary heroines she is prepared to achieve great deeds in the name of reading. When her teenage crush Jonathan re-enters her life, miraculously single, it feels like things could hardly get any better. Her sister Paulina, however, voices her concerns regarding his intentions. But what does she know? Just because she, to everyone’s surprise, has managed to date a guy for more than a couple of weeks? A guy who, in addition, seems way too clever for her.
To Clara’s frustration, her teaching ambitions are not working out according to plan. Her pupils are more concerned with docusoaps, the parents are asking for the impossible, her colleagues are making life miserable and the principal seems clueless. Jonathan assures her that he has the solution to her woes, and soon the conscientious Clara has made radical adjustments to her original mission. Because she never planned to play truant, and she certainly never planned to fall for her sister’s new boyfriend.
