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The first novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman´s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents

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The first novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman´s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents

In 1909, Ingmar Bergman´s mother and father first meet. Anna is a nurse from a wealthy family; Henrik, a poor, trainee priest living with his lover. From the intensity of their courtship, to the difficult early years of their marriage, Bergman fictionalises his parent´s life before his birth, drawing the quiet, emotional sensitivity of his film-maker´s eye deep into the heart of his own family.

The Best Intentions is the first in renowned film-maker Ingmar Bergman´s loose trilogy of novels that plots the fractious marriage of his parents, continued in Sunday´s Children and Private Confessions.

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"Bergman´s affecting account of the romance between an upright divinity student and the daughter of an aristocratic family is based on the courtship of his own parents" Publisher´s Weekly

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