The Light of Kautokeino
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Fox Østmo (25), a Norwegian actor of Sámi descent, on the cusp of the big time, and Ellie Maddox (36), a married British PR professional, meet at an Inclusion & Diversity event organised by Ellie's company.
He's handsome, intelligent, funny, ubercool and Norway's latest heartthrob. Thrust into the limelight overnight, Fox is a complicated young man. While proud of his Sámi heritage, he struggles to uphold and publicise his culture, language and traditions when everyone around him tries to make him abandon it. Including his beautiful pop star girlfriend.
Ellie is well-educated, responsible and the best in her field. She is the sophisticated city girl who plays by the rules.
In tune with nature, an eco-warrior and fighter for indigenous rights, Fox dislikes Ellie on sight. She's everything he hates about the corporate, 'colonial' world slowly taking over his beloved Sápmi.
A strange and unlikely friendship develops between them when Fox is asked to host Ellie for a year to film a documentary about the Sámi people.
As Ellie is left for dead in the middle of the frozen Finnmark tundra after a brutal attack, Fox begins to wonder if uncle Ailo's old Sámi beliefs really are 'just mythology' and a spark is kindled between these two people who couldn't be more unsuitable for each other if they tried.
Fox and Ellie have the power to make each other incredibly happy or completely break each other. To save an oppressed indigenous culture or to let it slide into oblivion.
Against the stunningly beautiful backdrop of Sápmi nature, from culture clashes and social prejudice to well (and not-so-well) meaning family and friends, everything stands between Fox Østmo and the woman he loves. But do the ancient Sámi 'spirits in the sky' have a different plan for them?
WARNING: The Prologue published contains strong language, swearing, some descriptions of violence and implied rape. This is not characteristic of the book.
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