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Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy

`Utterly, agonisingly compulsive … a masterpiece` Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman`s journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmark`s most celebrated twentieth-century writers.`Sharp, tough and tender … wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy … Ditlevsen can pivot from hilarity to heartbreak in a trice` Boyd Tonkin Spectator`Astonishing, honest, entirely revealing and, in the end, devastating. Ditlevsen`s trilogy is remarkable not only for its honesty and lyricism; these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent` Observer`The best books I have read this year. These volumes slip in like a stiletto and do their work once inside. Thrilling` New Statesman