JENNY HILL
by Minna Rytisalo
Jenny Hill, WSOY 2023, 293pp
German rights sold!
Theatre premiere in February 2025!
A layered, powerful novel about the female body by the author of Lempi.
Jenni Mäki is an ordinary divorced woman. But inside her, Jenny Hill sparkles, brave enough to do more and comment on the way the world looks as a woman. She is not satisfied with the answers she is given when she questions the truth.
Jenny Hill is a compelling novel about womanhood, middle age, menopause, and what it’s like to be a woman in this world— and it’s also about fairy-tale princesses and Brigitte Macron, too.
A poignant and timely novel that does justice to the female body through Rytisalo’s distinctively delicate, yet powerful, style.
RIGHTS SOLD: Finland WSOY (orig.), Germany: Carl Hanser
Materials available: English sample and synopsis, Finnish edition
Praise:
“Minna Rytisalo’s writing is wonderfully lyrical and we really enjoyed the way she tells Jenny Hill‘s story as one that could be told by so many women all across Europe, and one that is deeply empowering as well”
“A feminist novel, critical of patriarchy and sexism, a diamond in the rough.”
“Minna Rytisalo’s work about a divorced middle-aged woman searching for her own contours blows fairy-tale classics to smithereens. Jenny Hill is a multilayered novel with a surprising narrative solution that works”
is a writer, columnist and former school teacher. Her debut novel, Lempi (Gummerus 2016) was a critical and commercial success. It was awarded the Thank You for the Book Prize and the Bothnia Prize. Mrs C. (Gummerus 2018) captivated readers and won the Book of the Year Prize, the Bonnier Grand Journalism Prize, and the Torchbearer Literary Prize in 2016. Both novels have been adapted for the stage. Rytisalo lives in Kuusamo in Finland.
Author portrait by Laura Malmivaara
