- Published: 5 November 2020
- ISBN: 9780241503560
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $27.99
Childhood, Youth, Dependency
The Copenhagen Trilogy
- Published: 5 November 2020
- ISBN: 9780241503560
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $27.99
As in much of the best autofiction, the protagonist's weakness is counterpoised by the strength of her voice ... [Ditlevsen speaks] beyond the cruel and disappointing figures she encounters to us, her readers, awaiting her in another time and another place
Lara Feigel, Guardian
Despite the darkness that haunts these three books, they shine with Ditlevsen's honesty and humanity ... Her work, seemingly so simple, has the miraculous quality of a life perceived in perfect clarity. Despite the author's untimely death, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a powerful - and uplifting - testament of survival
Erica Wagner
Ditlevsen's taut, simple prose shines a light on what life and love were like for working-class women in 20th century Copenhagen. Elena Ferrante fans, take note
Stylist
Wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy ... Sharp, tough and tender
Boyd Tonkin, Spectator
Intense, elegant ... Ditlevsen's portrait of Vesterbro in the Twenties has something of the same texture of Elena Ferrante's description of the poor Neapolitan neighbourhood in which her heroines grow up
Lucy Scholes, The Daily Telegraph
Semi-miraculous, raw and poignant ... Radiates the clear light of truth and stands as the ultimate victory of a life that must have felt, in the living of it, like a defeat
Alex Preston, Observer
Mordant, vibrantly confessional... A masterpiece
Guardian
To get it out of the way: these are the best books I have read this year ... Childhood has the simple declarative sentences of Natalia Ginzburg and the pervasive horror of a good fairy story
John Self, New Statesman