The Strongest Woman on Earth is a moving family saga about the search for happiness, personal weakness, and unexpected power.

Happiness is the most dangerous thing of all. It‘s a law of nature that much sorrow always follows this so-called happiness.

Siblings Gunnhildur and Eidur are allies in a family where their parents are never happy at the same time. When their family is torn apart, the siblings are separated – a change that affects their entire lives.

Eidur becomes a peaceful idealist who longs to do good, and Gunnhildur, who posesses superpowers (though she doesn‘t flaunt them), studies cosmetology and becomes a sought-after mortuary cosmetologist.

R E V I E W S

“Not a single superfluous word – destiny and glimpses of existence are flying by, and the reader is compelled to go along from the first page onward.”
Gudrun Urfalino Kristinsdottir

“To be a person and survive, that is magic, as clearly demonstrated in this story about the world’s strongest woman …”
Hlin Agnarsdottir

“Rare are the authors who shed a new light on their home country, for the benefit of readers. Those authors are yet more rare who can formulate something that readers have always known about their society, and yet, have never been able to pinpoint it. Steinunn G. Helgadottir is such an author.”
Kari Tulinius