The Secrets of Shell Beach by Marie Hermanson is a novel centered on a Norse myth about a man kidnapped by trolls. The prisoner emerges from his magical imprisonment differently: he will never be able to return to his former life. But it happens that after many years the secret comes to the surface. It is useless to hide a skeleton in the closet; sooner or later it will come out into the wild and change the usual scenario of life. This is a novel about the invisible threads that connect people, about how fates are intricately intertwined, about people blowing the dust off memories.