Summer with Family Amarant

Elin Ruuth & Johanna Magoria

During the summer holidays before third grade, Neo Andersson is invited to accompany the Amarant family to their house in the countryside. The fabulous family estate is where Poppel grew up, with its vast grounds and shiny racing horses. But he has never had a friend visit him before…
When the legendary Silver Spoon Derby is about to take place for the last time, no one believes that Poppel’s horse, the headstrong Calypso, has what it takes to participate. But Neo knows what it feels like to hope for the impossible. At the annual garden party with the horse racing people, Poppel receives ominous news about his future. Neo accompanies the family patriarch Aster on a very strenuous walk, greataunt Robinia comes to visit with a life-size fox as a scarf, and Nanny Gardénia resigns! Who will now take care of the children? It’s high time to enjoy one last, golden summer holidays in the country, before everything changes for good.

Summer with Family Amarant, the second book in the Amarant’s trilogy, is a story about friendship over all boundaries – about envy, longing, acceptance, and elation.

Elin Ruuth and Johanna Magoria share their love for subtle absurdities and dark humour, and work carefully with details in both text and image, atmospheres, and depth.

Titles in the same series