A passionate and groundbreaking bestseller from one of Norways most highly-regarded and award-winning novelists, for readers ofAnnie Ernaux’s A Simple Passion andCoco Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein

A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and minus 14C, white, frosty mist around the parked car, around the spruces, the mailbox on its post, but higher up the sky is blue, clear, the sun has come back. She has written in her diary that she is waiting for the heartbreak that will turn her into her true self. She has an impending sense of doom or possibly her own death.

So opens Vigids Hjorths ground-breaking novel from 2001, which melds the yearning, doomed potency of Annie Ernauxs A Simple Passion with the scale and force of Anna Karenina. It asks, can passion be mistaken for love? And proceeds to document the destruction a decade defined by such a misconstruction can yield on a life.

Paperback | 352 pages | 5.08″ x 7.79″