It’s never too late for love. But it certainly can be too early.
Summer 1988: Friederika has big feet and calls herself Frie. Robert, new at school and shy, falls in love immediately, but doesn’t show it. Maybe she’s just flirting with him for fun?
Winter 2002: Frie is the mother of a young daughter, Robert is a musician. After years of radio silence and a chance encounter, it is confirmed: whenever the two meet, things get complicated.
Summer 2022: Frie, now fifty and single again since the end of her last relationship, travels to the school reunion. With her: all the memories of Robert, whom she hasn’t seen for half an eternity. What will happen between them this time?
A captivating and lovingly told novel about being young and growing up in the nineties, about lived dreams and missed opportunities – and about a new chance in the here and now.
Following her successful debut ‘Am liebsten sitzen alle in der Küche’, Julia Karnick‘s new, haunting and sympathetically honest novel. A story told with sensitivity and humour about a great love and false moments.