Into a Star
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  • Published: 17 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241682227
  • Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $34.99

Into a Star

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17 Sep 2024
EBook
27 Jun 2024
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27 Jun 2024
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A young woman grapples with grief and single parenthood after the sudden tragic death of her husband – beautifully wise and intimate autofiction

'Three in the bed. One not yet born, another dead, and I'm alive.'

Puk is 26 years old, preparing for the birth of her second child, when her husband has a heart attack on his morning run. She leaves their toddler with a friend and dashes to the hospital, where Lasse lies unresponsive in a coma. He dies a few hours later.

Into a Star follows Puk and her young family for one year after this tragedy, which has shattered the ordinary life she thought she would live, as she finds her way slowly through the enormous grief and, eventually, out the other side. With remarkable dignity, candour and attention to the domestic details that make us human, Puk Qvortrup invites us into the hardest moments of her life. And she reveals, amid the devastation, a powerful thread of hope.
  • Published: 17 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241682227
  • Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $34.99
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Praise for Into a Star

Into A Star is written with an immediate simplicity that it's impossible to resist. A private tragedy reminiscent of Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. But Puk Qvortrup writes younger, more exposed, more from the body

Svenska Dagbladet

An unusually strong debut novel. The author writes with a clarity and purity that goes straight to the heart of her reader

Nordjyske

Overwhelming. Tough and beautiful, a brave and insistent novel

Jyllands-Posten

Into A Star is written with an immediate simplicity that it's impossible to resist. A private tragedy reminiscent of Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. But Puk Qvortrup writes younger, more exposed, more from the body

Svenska Dagbladet

Overwhelming. Tough and beautiful, a brave and insistent novel

Jyllands-Posten

An unusually strong debut novel. The author writes with a clarity and purity that goes straight to the heart of her reader

Nordjyske
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