Heida - Steinunn Sigurdardóttir

I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. Men offer themselves, their sons . . . I've been made every offer imaginable over the years.

.Heida is a solitary farmer with a flock of 500 sheep in a remorseless area bordering Iceland's highlands. drunk fathers sometimes call me up and say things like: 'Do you need a farmhand?' 'I can lift the hay bales' 'I can repair your tractors'. . It's known as the End of the World.

One of her nearest neighbors is Iceland's most notorious volcano, Katla, which has periodically driven away the inhabitants of Lj tarstaoir ever since people first started farming there in the twelfth century.This portrait of Heida written with wit and humor by one of Iceland's most acclaimed novelists, Steinunn Siguroard ttir, tells a heroic tale of a charismatic young woman, who walked