Tora Skammelsen, a young writer, retreats to her aunt's cottage to get away from it all. Here, on the Danish North Sea coast, she tries to make sense of her life and rid herself of the ghosts of her past. When the old stable catches fire leading to the discovery of a skeleton, Tora is faced with ghosts that go even further back, to the time of World War Two. Now she must uncover her own family secrets, but will she learn the truth in time to save herself?

North Sea Cottage is a novella by award-winning Danish author Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen. More Tora Skammelsen stories are on the way, but if you can't wait to read something similar to North Sea Cottage, try Anna Märklin's Family Chronicles, a standalone published in 2012.

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