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The Trouble With Happiness

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Pub Date 3 Mar 2022 | Archive Date 30 Aug 2022
General Fiction (Adult) | Literary Fiction

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A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventional roles and finding freedom and happiness - without ever truly understanding what that might mean.

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these...

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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780241545317
PRICE £10.99 (GBP)
PAGES 160

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