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Mette Jakobsen

Biography

Mette Jakobsen

Mette Jakobsen was born in Denmark in 1964. She holds degrees in philosophy and creative writing and is the author of several plays. THE VANISHING ACT is her first novel. She lives in Sydney, Australia.

Mette Jakobsen

Books by Mette Jakobsen

by Mette Jakobsen - Fiction

On a small snow-covered island lives 12-year-old Minou, her philosopher Papa, Boxman the magician, and a clever dog called No-Name. A year earlier, Minou's mother left the house wearing her best shoes and carrying a large black umbrella. She never returned. One morning, Minou finds a dead boy washed up on the beach. Her father decides to lay him in the room that once belonged to her mother. Can her mother’s disappearance be explained by the boy?