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  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787335189
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $34.99
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The Devil Book

  • Asta Olivia Nordenhof




A classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story, from the unmissable Danish literary superstar

A bold tour-de-force about violence and money, love and desire, and a stand-off with the Devil himself

A woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. While she sits out a two-week Covid quarantine in his apartment, she begins to tell her story. Years ago and desperate for money, she sold herself to a stranger called T. He offered her a suitcase full of money and lavish gifts in exchange for total control of her body. In the bed between them lay a large kitchen knife and the promise of an iconic death.

But at the last moment, she aborted the treacherous game and fled. Now in London, she reflects on the forces - financial and social - that led her to the brink of destruction, and wonders what it would take to believe in love again.

Frank, intimate and dazzling entertaining, The Devil Book is a classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story. Taking us from Copenhagen to London to the inside of a mental institution, as well as a fancy apartment block, this unmissable stand-alone novel is the follow up to the critically-acclaimed Money to Burn.

  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787335189
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $34.99
Categories:

Praise for The Devil Book

So tender and pure that it is very difficult not to be moved

Kritik

Even better than the first

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