Maresi: Red Mantle

The Red Abbey Chronicles is a historically-inspired feminist fantasy saga, aimed at young adult audiences.

✓  Rights sold in 31 territories!

✓ Maria Turtschaninoff is a two-time winner of the Society of Swedish Literature Prize, a nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2020-2024), and winner of the 2014 Finlandia Prize!

✓  INHERITED LAND, Maria Turtschaninoff’s first adult fiction novel, has been awarded the prestigious Swedish YLE Literature Prize 2022

The third book is an epistolary novel that follows Maresi after she leaves the Red Abbey to establish a school in her oppressed home province of Rovas. The return to her Northern home, and fitting in, is not easy even with all the knowledge she’s bringing with her, but she is determined to triumph over the difficulties. However, she does not need to make it alone, for life has yet another surprise in store: love.

Praise:

“Strong ending for the fantasy trilogy” – Vasabladet newspaper

“Turtschaninoff’s literary universe can be compared to that of the biggest names in the genre. Maresi: Red Mantle is a rich, skilled epistolary novel that shows that Maria Turtschaninoff gets better and better with each novel. She is an incomparable narrator.” – Yle Nyheter broadcaster

“Maresi Red Mantle is a furious, skilfully written fantasy novel with nerve and presence. It makes the reader contemplate, but it also delivers a thunderous crescendo leading to the end battle, as the genre dictates.” – HBL newspaper