Do you remember March 12, remember Friday the 13th? The days when Norway and the world changed completely? Do you remember what you were thinking, when everything was so very confusing and utterly terrifying? It has already been so long.

They are a family of five. The adults have just finished an argument when the message arrives: From now on, they are to remain at home. Everyone, together. Author Maja Lunde is used to it. To working at home in her office. What she isn’t used to, is teaching school at home. She knows how to write great dystopian novels – not how to live in a dystopia. But the pandemic is already fact, and the family must find a new way of living. How does one do that?

The First Days takes its reader back to the days when the entire world stopped. Days of existential anxiety, worries, and fear. People have nothing but each other, but we do have each other, and there the opportunity arises for something new. With wisdom and wonder, Maja Lunde shows how what can happen in literature, can happen also in life: how the smallest things can mean the most.