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'''Shortlisted for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014'''
Fridrik, Agnes and Sigridur are accused of murdering two men on an Icelandic night in 1829. Now Agnes awaits execution, imprisoned in the farm of a lowly local family who, rumour has it, wouldn't be too great a loss if the prisoner becomes dangerous. Margrit Jonsdottir (the farmer's wife) doesn't feel threatened and sets the shocked, malnourished Agnes to work. Gradually Agnes reveals the events of that night to Margrit and Toti, a young priest. Predictably her version seems to be a little different from what everyone else concluded. Or perhaps not so predictably.