The Serious Game

"You may love me in a pagan way!" says Lydia Stille to Arvid Stjärnblom. Once she was the innocent girl he had kissed behind the lilac bushes. Now she is married, just like he is, but when chance brings them together after ten years, their feelings for each other ignite. And now she is a mature, independent woman who dares to embrace the demands of passion, with consequences that he can only begin to sense. The Serious Game is a novel about love, about illusion and resignation, while echoing the world events of idyllic early 1900s Stockholm.