The breakdown of a marriage exposes a dependence that moving out cannot simply resolve.

Tove Ditlevsen's premise asks readers to distinguish a practical separation from an emotional one. The attraction is the close view of a bond whose power continues after its formal structure has changed. Choose this for intense relationship fiction that allows intimacy and damage to remain uncomfortably entangled.

WHO IS IT FOR?

For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.