Boudoir
- Author: Sigrún Pálsdóttir (Iceland)
- Book type: Icelandic novel
- Publisher: Peirene Press
- English translation: Lytton Smith
- Released: April 7, 2026
- Length: 224 pages
- Format: paperback / ebook
- Prize: £ 12.99
- Order book from: Amazon
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Teddý lives with her parents on a farm in the Icelandic wilderness. It’s 1962, and the world is changing, although you wouldn’t know it from the stark quiet of the lava fields and mountains that mark the boundaries of the young woman’s existence. But after two chance encounters, Teddý’s dreams of a world beyond begin to crystallise, albeit in strange and unexpected ways, as we follow one woman’s life over five decades, from farm to city to the skies.
Taking us from the grandeur of rural Iceland to the glossy, sticky world of 1970s air travel, via check fraud, thwarted ambition and lost astronauts, Boudoir is a novel about reinvention, dislocation, and the forceful gravity of the lives and selves we think we’ve left behind.
Sigrún Pálsdóttir is born in 1967 in Reykjavik, Iceland. In 2001 she obtained her doctorate in history from Oxford University. Her debut novel Kompa was published in 2006, followed by several other books. Several of her novels have since been published in English. Delluferðin () her novel from 2019 won the 2021 EU Prize for Literature.