{"product_id":"childhood-youth-dependency-9780241457573","title":"Childhood Youth Dependency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo get it out of the way: these are \u003cb\u003ethe best books I have read this year \u003c\/b\u003e... \u003ci\u003eChildhood\u003c\/i\u003e has the simple declarative sentences of Natalia Ginzburg and the pervasive horror of a good fairy story -- John Self * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eMordant, vibrantly confessional... \u003cb\u003eA masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSemi-miraculous, raw and poignant\u003c\/b\u003e ... Radiates the clear light of truth and stands as the ultimate victory of a life that must have felt, in the living of it, like a defeat -- Alex Preston * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eIntense, elegant ... Ditlevsen's portrait of Vesterbro in the Twenties has something of the same texture of Elena Ferrante's description of the poor Neapolitan neighbourhood in which her heroines grow up -- Lucy Scholes * The Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy\u003c\/b\u003e ... Sharp, tough and tender -- Boyd Tonkin * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e A particular kind of masterpiece, one that helps fill a particular kind of void. \u003c\/b\u003eDitlevsen's voice, diffident and funny, dead-on about her own mistakes, is a welcome addition to that canon of women who showed us their secret faces so that we might wear our own. * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntense and elegant ... an absolute tour de force\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lucy Scholes * Paris Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning portrait of addiction and ambition . . . unnervingly brilliant. \u003c\/b\u003e I felt an almost physical pull to reimmerse myself in the freezing cold water of the trilogy, which understands the trauma of childhood and its reverberations like nothing else I have ever read * Vox *\u003cbr\u003eDitlevsen's taut, simple prose shines a light on what life and love were like for working-class women in 20th century Copenhagen. Elena Ferrante fans, take note * Stylist *\u003cbr\u003eDespite the darkness that haunts these three books, they shine with Ditlevsen's honesty and humanity ...  Her work, seemingly so simple, has the miraculous quality of a life perceived in perfect clarity. Despite the author's untimely death, \u003ci\u003eThe Copenhagen Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful - and uplifting - testament of survival -- Erica Wagner\u003cbr\u003eAs in much of the best autofiction, the protagonist's weakness is counterpoised by the strength of her voice ... [Ditlevsen speaks] beyond the cruel and disappointing figures she encounters to us, her readers, awaiting her in another time and another place -- Lara Feigel * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA punishing, addictive pleasure -- Amber Husain * The White Review *\u003cbr\u003eDesperately affecting * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eAstonishing * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eExceptional ... Her writing is impelled not only by her fine intelligence, but also by a rare focus: the compulsion to tell a particular story, and only that story * Times Literary Supplement *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733124460887,"sku":"9780241457573","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241457573.jpg?v=1719999494","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/childhood-youth-dependency-9780241457573","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}