A Line in the World

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

An exhilarating, moving account of life on the wild Danish coast, from one of Denmarks most acclaimed writers

A beautiful, melancholy account of finding home on a restless coast Katherine May, author of Wintering

This is the story of the windswept coastline that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to the Netherlands, a world of shipwrecks and storm surges, of cold-water surfers and resolute sailors wives. In spellbinding prose, award-winning writer Dorthe Nors invites the reader to travel through the landscape where her family lived for generations and which she now calls home. It is an extraordinarily powerful and beautiful journey through history and memory - the landscapes as well as her own.

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FURTHER PRAISE FOR A LINE IN THE WORLD

A place brimming with memories and strangeness, where storms surge and lighthouses blink... fascinatingFinancial Times

A singular prose stylist... Nors is such a great companion, honest and curious and surprisingMax Porter, author of Lanny

Brilliant... a personal, poetic meditation on this remote edge of windswept landscapes and wildwatersNew York Times

The perfect winter read, making a virtue of dark nights and frost-bitten winds on the authors native North Sea coastObserver

A deep dive into a coastal landscape, both breathtaking and hypnoticNatasha Carthew, author of Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience