My Next Life

The “Clara” trilogy is finally complete!

What happens when your past catches up with you?

Clara Lofthus is enjoying a low-profile life with her partner Axel and twin sons in Nairobi, where she heads a humanitarian aid and education organisation. In the wake of a brutal terrorist attack during which she rescues a group of children, she becomes the focus of massive media attention and a heroine in her home country of Norway. She decides to exploit this to her own advantage.

When she is offered a come-back as Minister of Justice (in Norway), her quiet life in Kenya becomes a thing of the past. With time, the team behind an investigatory podcast gets wind of Clara and her dark secrets, and Clara realises that far too many people possess incriminating information about her. Lurking in the background are her mother, whom Clara has been claiming was dead for years, and her former bodyguard Stian, who became her close confidant.

My Next Life (Mitt neste liv) is a novel about old lies, original sin, attempts to build a new life, and what happens when the past comes back to haunt you, but you are still unwilling to give up.

My Next Life is the third volume in the “Clara-series”. Deep Fjord (Alt er mitt, 2018) and Blood Ties (Av mitt blod, 2021) were both huge successes nationally and internationally.