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From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.

Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again.

Yet as she descends into a world of pills and hospitals, she begins to wonderis insanity really something to be feared, or does it bring a kind of freedom?

The Faces

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    Publisher: Picador USA
    Publication Date: 19/04/2022
    ISBN13: 9781250838193, 978-1250838193
    ISBN10: 1250838193

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.

    Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again.

    Yet as she descends into a world of pills and hospitals, she begins to wonderis insanity really something to be feared, or does it bring a kind of freedom?

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