The article is a preliminary study on Marianne Fredriksson's (1927–2007) Bible-inspired novels. Fredriksson was a bestselling author, translated into many languages and loved by her many readers across the world. She was a prominent author, not only in Sweden, but around the world. Her books have been translated into 47 languages and sold more than 17 million copies. Despite her success, Fredriksson's writing remains virtually unexplored. Fredriksson’s novels where in the midst of important currents of ideas that took place during the 1980s and 1990s. In this article Fredriksson’s debut novel The Book of Eve (1980) is read in relation to a number of mindsets about Eve in religious, postbiblical reconstructions and philosophical contexts.