Storytel has acquired Ann-Christin Antell’s Christmas at the Cotton Mill, a festive short story collection.
Icelandic readers rejoice: Ann-Christin Antell‘s Christmas at the Cotton Mill is travelling to Iceland, where it will be published by Storytel.
Christmas at the Cotton Mill is a festive collection of short stories set in the same fictional world as the successful Cotton Mill trilogy, which follows three generations of the Barker family throughout the decades.
Christmas at the Cotton Mill follows each of the three generations giving readers new insight into their family life, Christmas traditions, and backstory. In Loviisa’s Christmas, the first short story, we follow Jenny’s aunt Loviisa as she is waiting for her husband’s return and is faced with the choice between doing the right thing and helping a woman in need, who has been shunned by society, or doing the respectable thing and siding with the rest of the community. Thankfully, both a happy ending and a cheerful Christmas are in the cards.
In Christmas at the Örndahl Ironworks Martta Barker is a teenager spending Christmas with her foster parents Jenny and Frederik. She has a crush on one of the local young men, Anton, and hopes he will ask her to dance at the Christmas party, but things take an unexpected turn when her little brother falls through the ice into the river. Is their Christmas ruined? Or can tiding of comfort and joy still reach them?
In Christmas at the Falke Castle it is 1939 and Paula Falke (née Barker) is charged with planning Christmas for the whole family and the workers of the factory while her husband is fighting at the front. A happy ending seems impossible, but hope springs everlasting and the Falke family is in for a joyful Christmas after all.
Storytel is publishing in Icelandic the Cotton Mill trilogy, and is thrilled to continue with Antell’s production. In Finland, Christmas at the Cotton Mill is published by Gummerus.
Congratulations to the author and the publishers!