About the Author

Arja Kajermo has contributed cartoons to the feminist publisher Attic Press and occasionally to the Sunday Press, The Irish Times, Image magazine, Magill and others. Her strip 'Dublin Four' ran in the Sunday Tribune. She now draws the strip 'Tuula' in the Sunday edition of a Swedish daily newspaper. In 2014 she was shortlisted for the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award for her short story 'The Iron Age', upon which this novel is based. Arja lives in Dublin.

Reviews

'Arja Kajermo's 'The Iron Age', about a grim childhood in postwar Finland is so bleakly funny that it makes Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes seem idyllic.' The Irish Times 'Full of hardships and puzzlement and dark humours. A memorable chronicle of a family's struggle during a less well-known period in history.' Anne Enright, Yiyum Lee and Jon McGregor, judges of the 2014 Davy Byrnes Award