Two women from two very different worlds – with a shared dream of freedom and love…

DIE FRAUEN VOM ROSENHAG
(The Women of the Rosenhag)
Book 1: TRAUM VOM NEUBEGINN
by Corina Bomann
Penguin Germany, May 2025

Karlskrona, Sweden, 1910. Liv feels constricted – and not just by the corset she puts on every day. Her loveless marriage to shipowner Sten Boregard, too, is stifling her. Her desire for freedom grows stronger when she meets Marlene, a sailor’s widow, who has been ostracised by the other sailors’ wives ever since her husband and his crew died on the high seas. But Marlene won’t let anyone bring her down, and Liv is impressed by her free spirit and energy. The pair become close friends, and when Liv unexpectedly inherits a rose-covered gamekeeper’s cottage in the woods, she and Marlene boldly decide to create a refuge where women can fulfil their true potential. They secretly breathe new life into ‘Rosenhag’ and its wildflower garden – but little do they know that not only their secret, but they themselves, are in grave danger…

• Vol. 2 of the Rosenhag series to be published in August 2025

With sales totalling over two million copies, Corina Bomann’s popular historical sagas are regular bestsellers, and her readers adore her courageous women, passionate emotions and moving stories – including, most recently, the Waldfriede Clinic saga, which charts the eventful story of a hospital in Berlin. Her new series, « Die Frauen vom Rosenhag » (‘The women of Rosenhag’), is set in Sweden, where two courageous heroines fight for their freedom and for love.