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 REBOUND was published by Norstedts in 2024, and the stand-alone second novel NOUVEAU RICHE will be published in August this year. It is as romantic and as it is tragicomic – a tale of class, capital and love. 

Agent Maja Hjelm

TO BE PUBLISHED NORSTEDTS, SEPTEMBER 2025
GENRE UPMARKET / READING GROUP
PAGES 320

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Stella Dubois-Howard has always been lovable. But does that mean she is worthy of love? When Tom leaves her for another woman, Stella realises she has confused the two concepts.

Low on self-confidence but high on champagne and sedatives, Stella seeks validation, one nameless fling at a time.

During a Christmas holiday in her childhood England, everything comes to a head. Stella receives a vague assignment from her mother: in order to save the family vineyard, Stella must charm an American investor. But at their first meeting, she realises that fate has played a trick on her. She has met the cold businessman before – but in a completely different context.

In an attempt to reunite her chaotic family, Stella seeks out her estranged niece. But the meeting with Evie does not go as Stella had planned. What's more, Stella is banished from the Cotswolds after a scandalous Christmas party. Broken, she returns home to Stockholm, where the hunt for new money becomes an unexpected journey towards liberation. And perhaps, also, the path to true love.

Marcella Mravec follows up her acclaimed debut Rebound with standalone Nouveau Riche – a romantic and tragicomic tale of class, capital and love.

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

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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...