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• Childhood

  

  A masterpiece' liz jensen, guardianthe first volume in the copenhagen trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writerstove knows she is a misfit, whose childhood is made for a completely different girlbut tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone elsein her working-class neighbourhood in copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend ruth, who initiates her into adult secretsoxfam bookshop st albans 'utterly, agonisingly compulsivesee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor 'long, mysterious words begin to crawl across my soul', and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within her - and that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behindchildhood, the first volume in the copenhagen trilogy, is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship, told with lyricism and vivid intensity

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• Dependency

  

  A masterpiece' liz jensen, guardianthe final volume in the copenhagen trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writerstove is only twenty, but she's already famous, a published poet and wife of a much older literary editoras the years go by, the central tension of tove's life comes into painful focus: the terrible lure of dependency, in all its forms, and the possibility of living freely and fearlessly - as an artist on her own termsher path in life seems set, yet she has no idea of the struggles ahead - love affairs, wanted and unwanted pregnancies, artistic failure and destructive addictionoxfam bookshop st albans 'utterly, agonisingly compulsivesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe final volume in the copenhagen trilogy, and arguably ditlevsen's masterpiece, dependency is a dark and blisteringly honest account of addiction, and the way out

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