Inspired, Bjorklund set out on a series of compact, imaginative, and stylistically polished novels of her own about the recollections of family members from the lost city of Viborg (Viipuri), and about the Helsingfors (Helsinki) childhood of her alter ego, Mitra, in Manens tid (The Moon's Time; 1985), Barnen i spegeln (The Children in the Mirror; 1988), and Huset reed himmelsbalkongen (The House with the Sky Balcony; 1993).