A Girl Left the Room

When you're fourteen, there is no afterwards.

It all begins when Tanja meets Eg. Handsome, grey-eyed, he is a friend of her parents and a teller of stories. Soon, he begins to write-sending letters that arrive at her home in the Swedish forest, drawing her deeper into a fated love offering escape from an isolated childhood.

Tanja steps through a door into adult experience from which there is no return, a relationship where desire and excitement give way to shame and control. Years later, now a poet armed with the language to name what happened, she finds a box of Eg's mildewed letters and begins to read.

Hauntingly lyrical and fearlessly honest, A Girl Left the Room is the story of one woman's fight to reclaim the girl she once was.

"Gripping, chilling, and extraordinarily clear-eyed" — Rosie Price, author of What Red Was

"An entire world of complicity unfolds moment by moment" — Sîan Hughes, author of Pearl

"A stunning debut from one of Denmark's leading poets" — Christina Patterson, author of Outside, the Sky is Blue

"So blunt, so well written, Lolita speaking out, telling her truth. A superb book" — Dorthe Nors, author of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

"Blending poetic reflection with sharp honesty" — Service95