Journalist Ebba Lindqvist is going through a personal crisis—she, a specialist in family relationships, an exemplary wife and mother, succumbs to a pull toward a newly arrived idol from her youth, once a popular rock musician. For him she abandons everything she has achieved over these years and everything she defended so fiercely. But a relationship with a person whose life stance is too different from what she’s used to doesn’t develop harmoniously. It even gets to the point where Ebba has to see a psychotherapist. And then she gets an assignment—to write an article about love that lasts a lifetime.
Ebba travels to a small resort town in southern Sweden to interview an elderly woman whose letter once caught her eye in a magazine. It was supposed to be routine work. But the love story that begins in the 1950s in an isolated boarding house becomes for Ebba an astonishing discovery and a chance to know herself better.
“Sara Paborn, in her books, explores love—with all seriousness, yet with a great sense of humor.” — Femina
“Sometimes a small love lasts longer than a big one. It can even be enough for a sixty-year marriage. That makes small love great. […] Sara Paborn managed to grasp in her novel a very subtle topic.” — expressen.se