The Best Intentions

The first novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergmans trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents In 1909, Ingmar Bergmans mother and father first meet. Anna is a nurse from a wealthy family; Henrik, a poor, trainee priest living with his lover. From the intensity of their courtship, to the difficult early years of their marriage, Bergman fictionalises his parents life before his birth, drawing the quiet, emotional sensitivity of his film-makers eye deep into the heart of his own family. The Best Intentions is the first in renowned film-maker Ingmar Bergmans loose trilogy of novels that plots the fractious marriage of his parents, continued in Sundays Children and Private Confessions.