ARGONAUT BOOKS

The ripples from a breakup radiate outwards from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train of tragicomic events that lead to an inevitable conclusion. Tove Ditlevsen's final novel - published a year before her suicide in 1976 - is a masterful conclusion to a great work of writing: a blackly funny and devastating tour-de-force that pulses with life even as it journeys towards death. Reviews Ditlevsen makes this darkest of all material fascinating, perversely likable and occasionally revelatory. She's a brilliant...Read More