Boyd Tonkin

Full of desperate longing: Unquiet, by Linn Ullmann, reviewed

A lonely child hopes in vain to live as a family with her parents Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann

A rare photograph of Linn Ullmann as a child with both her parents. Credit: Alamy
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  • Unquiet

    Linn Ullmann, translated from the Norwegian by Thilo Reinhard

    Hamish Hamilton, pp. 400, £14

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