BLACKBERRY BLUE DAYS

  • A deeply moving father-daughter story about reconciliation and new beginnings.
  • With warmth and subtle humor, the author tells of a summer that changes everything.

Sometimes your own life feels foreign, sometimes you need a new place to reinvent everything.

Elisa’s life is tightly scheduled. As a landscape architect, she rushes from one project to the next, always reachable, always under pressure. When her father has to go to the hospital for tests, she reluctantly agrees to look after his manor house on Rügen for a few days. The two have barely had contact since he left the family many years ago - but now he apparently needs her help.

Arriving on the island, Elisa is dismayed. The house turns out to be a massive renovation project, the garden is overgrown with brambles, and WiFi and running water are only available outdoors. The only bright spot: Aurel, her father’s old sheepdog, who immediately takes a liking to her.

While attempting to manage the chaos, Elisa rediscovers something: her love for plants. She takes on the wild property and, in doing so, uncovers secrets from the island’s past that also shed new light on her own life. Elisa must make a decision. Can she build a new life on Rügen? And finally reconcile with her father? Then his health suddenly deteriorates dramatically ...

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Wunderlich
  • Release: 15.05.2026
  • ISBN: 978-3-8052-0129-2
  • 304 Pages
  • Author: Simone Veenstra

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Simone Veenstra

Simone Veenstra was born in Hesse and grew up in Franconian Switzerland. She is a freelance journalist and writer, and has published numerous novels and children’s books. She also writes for TV/film, radio plays, games, and interactive media. Until 2022, she co-managed the small independent publishing house Das wilde Dutzend with Dorothea Martin. She lives in Berlin and on Rügen, where she is lovingly and patiently restoring an old three-sided farmstead, the Blackberry Farm.