From one of Scandinavia's finest and best-loved novelists comes a startlingly intimate and powerful portrait about the fragile, yet irrevocable bond between a young girl and her dying mother
Helle Helle (b. 1965) is one of Denmark's foremost and best-loved novelists. She has been awarded the Danish Critics' Prize for Literature, and has received her country's highest literary accolades, including the Per Olov Enquist Prize, the Golden Laurels of the Danish Booksellers' Association, the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy, and the Holberg Medal. She has also been nominated four times for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Her highly acclaimed novel This Should Be Written in the Present Tense is her only other work to have appeared in English (praised by John Self in The Guardian for being "a book with all the bigness hidden away.")
