Marika Cobbold

Marika Cobbold was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where her father was Editor and Publisher for the daily newspaper of western Sweden. She was educated in Gothenburg but in her teens spent some time in England and France in order to learn the languages.
She lives in London.

Titles: Guppies For Tea (W.H. Smith Fresh Talent/RNA New Writers' Award), A Rival Creation, The Purveyor of Enchantment (Black Swan), Frozen Music (Orion), Shooting Butterflies (Bloomsbury)

Shooting Butterflies

By the time Grace is eighteen, she has been orphaned, moved countries and lost touch with her only brother. Talented, awkward and a little fierce, she can't help thinking that she's managed to lose, rather carelessly she feels, anything she's ever loved. So when she decides to revisit her past in America, she takes her camera - she's going to catch these memories and pin them down to keep. What she isn't expecting that long, hot summer in New Hampshire is to meet the love of her life.
Some years later, now divorced and a controversial photographer, Grace finds that she is, quite literally, being haunted by the past . . .