Winner of the 2019 ARK Children’s Book Prize

Winner of the 2021 “Bokslukerprisen” – more than 125,00 students in the 5th, 6th and 7th grade vote for the winner

Agnes is spending the autumn school holiday in a small village, and envisions a boring week. Her cousin Sindre would rather hang out with his friend Ben, and the neighbour girl Tyra is busy doing her own thing. But when the four youngsters make a terrible discovery in the forest, everything changes. Something is not right in the village. Something is hiding in the woods, something frightening that they don’t understand. Then one of them disappears.

The Harp is the scary movie you want to see again and again, even if you don’t really dare. An intense, frightening and fascinating thriller novel.