Den, der lever stille

After her mother's death, Leonora decides to write the real story of herself. There is lonely Christina, growing up in a red house in Helsinge with a plan: if she behaves normally, gets top marks and never makes her mother sad or her father angry, perhaps they will love her. And there is the young literature student who moves to Copenhagen anyway, remakes herself as the writer Leonora and, to her parents' horror, falls in love with a woman who is a priest. Her father predicts she will come crawling home from the gutter. Instead her anger and appetite for life take over, while she goes on longing for an explanation and for her mother's love, even after death.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

384 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark

First published

2018 by Politikens Forlag

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9788740035391 (original)

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