Everyone needs a family. Vilma is working on it.

Vilma has become a sexually experienced woman. She has also become pregnant. With Robert, who has verbal Tourette’s and just the right amount of chest hair.

But even though life is beginning to fall into place, existence feels dangerous. The world is full of toxoplasmosis and blue cheese and heavy babies. And after birth, when one is to be a mother? Can you love a new life, if you were never loved?

Vilma also has some dead family to sort out. She buys her first ever plane ticket and travels to London to tidy up her father’s apartment. She finds a notebook with information that turns her entire family history upside down.

Vilma Forever is a humorous and heartwarming novel about everything one carries, about the longing for belonging, and how one might becomes whole.