‘Wonderfully intimate and honest. The characters feel real and you can almost smell the sea air of Helsinki! – Pauliina Ståhlberg, Director of the Finnish Institute in LondonShe’s just fourteen. He’s 21 and a grown man. Is she too young to fall in love?Kaisa is the new girl in town – again. When a messy divorce forces Kaisa’s mother to move to a small flat in an island suburb of Helsinki, Kaisa isn’t looking forward to another new school. But in Lauttasaari she meets Vappu Noren, and begins to spend all her days in Vappu’s large, chaotic house, filled with her three unruly siblings and their friends.Kaisa doesn’t notice that she is being quietly observed by the friend of Vappu’s brother, a much older, serious boy, called Matti.Matti loves Kaisa at first sight. She is just the kind of innocent girl he’s been looking for. Matti makes careful plans to seduce Kaisa on Midsummer’s Eve. But is Kaisa too young to fall in love?The Finnish Girl is a prequel novella to The Englishman series of Finnish and British contemporary Navy romance books.If you like an honest and intimate true love story, you will love this ‘Finnish Lolita’ by Helena Halme.Pick up The Finnish Girl to discover this addictive Nordic contemporary fiction series today!
