Natural Causes

For twenty years Elin has been a family doctor, and she knows the undercurrents of the population better than anyone: the gluten-free and sugar-free fads, the middle-aged patients baffled by their tiredness, who think ageing and death will make an exception for them. She has been married to Aksel for at least as long. But before Aksel there was Bjørn, who has suddenly turned up on Facebook and upended everything. Now Elin has moved into her surgery, where patients stream in all day, and sits there in something close to paralysis while the plastic skeleton in the corner laughs at her. At home Aksel rages, unless he has taken up with the divorced neighbour Gro. The novel weighs the curses of self-knowledge against the blessings of denial.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

282 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Love, Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2019 by Forlaget Oktober

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9788249521517 (original)

9781948830669 (Open Letter, United States)