The Swift

About secret love, courage and unsolved mysteries in times of war

The Swift is an independent sequel to Enemy Friend and the second part of the Ellinge series.

Seventeen-year-old Britt Hedin has found her great love in Lage Ahlstedt, a much older and divorced high school teacher. Her fathe is very much against this relationship and Britt and Lage have to meet secretly. Eventually their secret meeting are being discovered and Britt has to flee the house. She enlists in a voluntary organization for women and is sent to the Norwegian boarderwhere she gets a job as an air guard – popularly called the Swifts
Through her job as an air guard she meets new friends who become close to her, but also gets to see life from a different side and meets new challenges with both Jewish refugees, corrupt police and British bombers. And at home there is Lage, but is he still waiting for her or is their love story over forever?

Through the parallel contemporary story that takes place, we meet Paula and Holger who give lectures about everything they have learned about the history of Ellinge. A seemingly uninteresting book suddenly becomes relevant when the dedication makes them suspect a murder story in the 1940s. Who murdered Robert Hedin? And why did so many have a motive for wanting to kill him?