Fiction

Åsa Hellberg

Welcome to Flanagans
Book #1 in the Flanagans trilogy

WELCOME TO FLANAGANS, the first in a new series set in

20th century London and Sweden marking a new depar-
ture for the 800,000-copy bestselling author Åsa Hellberg.
Welcome to Flanagans, where anything can, and will happen! Step into
the jet set lifestyle of the 1960’s, where aristocrats and business men
meet, and where the absence of an invitation to one of Linda Lansing’s
glamorous and legendary parties, could mean your social downfall.

But deep down on the inside, Linda doesn’t feel all that glamorous. As
a woman and as a Swede, she is an outsider in this world. She has
struggled to rise from her humble beginning on the Swedish West
coast, to becoming the owner and head of the most prestigious hotel
in London: The Flanagans. Her begrudging cousins still plot her down-
fall, and she is starting to wonder if it’s really worth all the sacrifices. Is
this happiness? Is this enough?

Downstairs, in the kitchens, we meet Elinor and Emma who dream

about a better life. But when both Elinor and Emma meet a charming
stranger, their lives and everything they have fought for will be turned
upside-down in a dramatic turn of events.

This brand new trilogy is centred on the Flanagans hotel in London,

beginning in the 1960’s, continuing in the 1980’s in the second book
with the dramatic final in the 2010’s. Under crystal chandeliers, on car-
peted floors and in-between wood panelled walls, we’ll get to know Rights sold
Bulgarian: Bard (1)
the women who in three generations run the hotel, each one with their
Estonian: Varrak (1+2)
own hardships, heartbreak, successes, drama, and challenges that Danish: Lindhardt & Ringhof (1-3)
come with their own era. The new series marks a new beginning for Finnish: Bazar (1-3)
German: Ullstein (1-3)
the authorship. Polish: Under offer
Spanish: Maeva (1+2)
One woman, one hotel, everything to play for. Welcome to Flanagans.
Publication
Bokförlaget Forum
September 2019
270 pages
‘[A] well-written and very charming story...Impossible to stop reading.’
— Lottens Bokblogg Material
Swedish Edition
English Sample Translation 80pp
Author Presentation
Author Q&A
Åsa Hellberg, describes herself as “between 25 and 85 years old, physically and
depending on today’s mood”. She grew up in Fjällbacka, where part of her new Film & TV Rights
series is set, today she resides in Stockholm. Her debut Casanovas kvinna, was Rights Available

published in 2009, and she has since then written the bestselling trilogy about
Sonja, as well as the stand-alone titles En liten värld, Toscana Tur & Retur, Glo-
ria and Ett oväntat besök. With sales of almost 1 million, she is one of Sweden’s Contact
most loved commercial women’s fiction writers. Elisabet Brännström
elisabet.brannstrom@bonnierrights.se
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