MARCELLA MRAVEC

 
 

MARCELLA MRAVEC is a Stockholm-based writer and fashion creative. Starting out as a journalist, Marcella Mravec covered everything from news to sports to music and fashion. Having spent the last decade as a magazine editor and then leading creative teams within the H&M group, she decided it was time to start writing again.

Marcella’s debut novel will be published by Norstedts later this year. It is a romantic comedy about life after thirty and what happens when you’re forced to go off-script to find love, redefining both success and the very base of your identity in the process. 

Photo: Ellen Nykvist

Agent Maja Hjelm

 
 

WORKS

REBOUND

 

PUBLISHED NORSTEDTS, AUGUST 2024
GENRE
UPMARKET / READING GROUP
PAGES
320

RIGHTS SOLD
film and tv: yellowbird

What do you do when you've chosen the narrow path but still lose your footing? 

REBOUND is a novel about the search for one's own identity as well as for eternal love. The story takes a winding route to both, through secret sex clubs in Östermalm, romantic estates in the Cotswolds, and a pale hospital corridor in Malmö.

A nice (though not very successful) partner, a cool job (though she missed the promotion), and a condominium in the city center (though it happens to be in the wrong corner of the hippest area). 32-year-old Thea has, through meticulous planning, secured the holy trinity of adult life. 

However, when she suddenly gets dumped on Christmas Day, a chain of events is set in motion, forcing her to reassess what success actually means as her carefully crafted game plan for adulthood begins to unravel at the edges. And what is it that her mom is really lying about? Ben (her, on paper, perfect plan B) can't decide whether he wants to live happily ever after or if he should rebound with his ex before him and Thea finally get together – as they’re supposed to (!). Challenged by her friends, Thea takes on a dating challenge: she must go on dates with three separate guys before Easter, preferably sleeping with at least one – but a failed sex club date almost gets her fired.

She flees to the English countryside and onwards to the French Riviera. There aren't any men there, anyway, argues her best friend Stella. Except for her sexy, hopeless cousin Dominic. Luckily enough, bad boys aren't Thea's type...