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Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout her adult life until her death by suicide in 1978.To get it out of the way: these are <b>the best books I have read this year </b>... <i>Childhood</i> has the simple declarative sentences of Natalia Ginzburg and the pervasive horror of a good fairy story
- John Self, New Statesman
Mordant, vibrantly confessional... <b>A masterpiece</b>
Guardian
<b>Semi-miraculous, raw and poignant</b> ... 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
Intense, 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
<b>Wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy</b> ... Sharp, tough and tender
- Boyd Tonkin, Spectator
<b> A particular kind of masterpiece, one that helps fill a particular kind of void. </b>Ditlevsen'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
<b>Intense and elegant ... an absolute tour de force</b>
- Lucy Scholes, Paris Review
<b>A stunning portrait of addiction and ambition . . . unnervingly brilliant. </b> 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
Ditlevsen'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
Despite 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, <i>The Copenhagen Trilogy</i> is a powerful - and uplifting - testament of survival
- Erica Wagner,