Finland’s #1 Bestseller Hanna Brotherus’ MY ONLY HOME now sold over 70 000 copies!

We are extremely happy to share some wonderful news today: MY ONLY HOME by Hanna Brotherus, Finland’s #1 official fiction bestseller of 2021, has to-date sold over 70 000 copies and counting!

This incredibly beautiful novel has charmed readers with its honesty and truthfulness, and the rights have already been sold in a pre-empt to Ullstein Verlag in Germany (2-book deal), Varrak in Estonia, and to Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House in Israel! Currently, Hanna Brotherus is finalizing her second novel FOR MY LIFE,  which is one of the most anticipated books of the fall, publication in September in Finland.

Download the English materials for MY ONLY HOME here!

We are proud to represent Finland’s #1 bestselling author in fiction, Hanna Brotherus and her two breathtaking novels.

PRAISE FOR MY ONLY HOME:

MY ONLY HOME is a breathtaking, infectious book. Not only is it written with rare personal urgency, we believe it will be read and experienced by its readers in a highly personal way – by everyone who has children, everyone who has siblings, a partner, a mother. It is alive with honesty, animated by the quest for truth, and driven by a deep yearning for peace. We are happy and proud to welcome Hanna Brotherus at Ullstein and introduce her incredible voice to German-language readers.
– Karsten Kredel, Publisher and CEO, Ullstein Verlag, Germany

MY ONLY HOME is a story about life itself. A dancer writing about her own life, her identity and troubles. The Finnish origin and Finnishness of the book doesn’t mean it wouldn’t touch the soul of readers in Estonia. Because in the end, regardless of our nationality, all of us will only have ourselves – our only home.
– Piret Saluri, translator, Estonia

“Brotherus’s debut novel is brimmed with beauty and understanding, but, at the same time, its structure evolves as if in a crime novel. When the truth bursts forth, even the reader is left gasping for air. [—] Brotherus writes gorgeously, fluidly, poetically, and simultaneously, with terrible honesty. She strives to understand the chain of generations, why we become who we are. The book must be read slowly, so as not to miss the sublimeness of the language.”
– Tiina Ruotsala, Keskipohjanmaa newspaper

MY ONLY HOME by Hanna Brotherus

When her children leave home, a woman takes a deep dive into her past.
She wants to understand all the lives she has lived. She wants to examine whose have been the eyes she has seen herself through, who have been the ones she has yearned to walk beside her, and to understand what she still has ahead of her.

And she wants to begin anew anything that is possible.

My Only Home is a fearless auto-fictive novel about the frenzy for life and the acceptance of incompleteness.

When her children leave their home, the woman wants to take a deep dive into the past. She wants to understand all the lives she has lived. She wants to examine whose have been the eyes she has seen herself through, who have been the ones she has yearned to walk beside her, and to understand what she still has ahead of her. And she wants to begin anew anything that is possible.

An uncompromising journey into the truth behind the memories begins. The gates are wide open when the woman realizes that she is the most important person in her life. Her body is her only home.

FOR MY LIFE by Hanna Brotherus

For My Life is a story about the aging of a woman. The novel contemplates the essence of independence and one’s own body, the connections one creates with family and friends, and the transience of life.
Her life as an artist and the mother of four children has kept a woman in motion incessantly. She’s found the meaning in the needs and hopes of others. Once her children leave their childhood home, she needs to find purpose for her days once again. Freedom is difficult to grasp, the future is hard to see.

When the old family summer villa is sold, it’s time to dispose of things. The important memories. The clear autumn air sees the woman set out on her own for the villa where no one is waiting for her – no one except the inevitable change. She goes through her life and amidst the silence she finds a path to follow.
For My Life is as brave and honest as the debut novel My Only Home, which gained immense popularity within an exceptionally large readership.