About Bente Forsdal

I have always been drawn to the questions hiding underneath ordinary life.

Sometimes I explore them through stories. Sometimes through the things I am trying to understand in my own life. And sometimes through an idea that will not leave me alone until I write it down.

I have written children's adventures filled with imagination and discovery, stories about growing up in a world of screens, books about feeling stuck and finding clarity, about trying to communicate with our teenagers, and about one of the biggest questions I have ever asked:

Where does all the love go after someone dies?

On the surface, those books may seem very different. To me, they are not. They all come from the same place.

I write because I believe the right story, question, or idea can help us see something differently.

I do not write because I have everything figured out. Usually, I start writing because I do not. I get curious. I ask questions. I pay attention to the moments that make me stop and think, there is something here. Then I try to find the words for it.

For a child, that might mean opening a door into an imaginary world and discovering what they are capable of along the way. For an adult, it might mean finally having words for something they have been carrying for years.

That is what I hope my books do.

I want children to wonder. I want parents to recognise themselves. I want someone who feels stuck to see another possibility. I want someone who is grieving to understand that the love they still carry has somewhere to go.

And above all, I want a reader to close one of my books seeing something, maybe even themselves, a little differently than they did before.

I was born and raised in Norway and now live in Arizona with my family. My life between countries, motherhood, imagination, love, loss, and all the ordinary moments in between continues to shape the stories and questions I explore.

I write the books I wish existed when I needed them.

And if one of them finds you at exactly the right moment, then it has done what I hoped it would do.