Childhood, Youth, Dependency

Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece Liz Jensen, Guardian

Following one womans journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmarks most celebrated twentieth-century writers.

Sharp, tough and tender ... wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy ... Ditlevsen can pivot from hilarity to heartbreak in a trice Boyd Tonkin Spectator

Astonishing, honest, entirely revealing and, in the end, devastating. Ditlevsens trilogy is remarkable not only for its honesty and lyricism; these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent Observer

The best books I have read this year. These volumes slip in like a stiletto and do their work once inside. ThrillingNew Statesman