Italian Shoes - Henning Mankell - book

Fredrik Welin lives as a recluse on a Baltic island. At sixty-six, without a wife or friends, his only activity is a daily swim in an ice hole. The intrusion of Harriet, the love of his youth abandoned forty years earlier, disrupts his routine. Dying, she demands that he keep a promise: to show her a forest lake. Fredrik doesn't know it, but his life has just begun again.