{"product_id":"9781805333821","title":"A Girl Left the Room","description":"Author(s): Gernes, Ulrikka S., \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/06\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Pushkin Press,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: PUSHKIN PRESS                  ,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945),\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 215 x 135 x 28\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9781805333821\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen you're fourteen, there is no afterwards.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTanja 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHauntingly lyrical and fearlessly honest, \u003ci\u003eA Girl Left the Room\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of one woman's fight to reclaim the girl she once was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping, chilling, and extraordinarily clear-eyed. . . A novel that everybody should read'\u003c\/b\u003e Rosie Price, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Red Was\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An entire world of complicity unfolds moment by moment. . . It kept me pinned to the page'\u003c\/b\u003e Sîan Hughes, author of \u003ci\u003ePearl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It's compelling. It's shocking. It's hypnotic in its clarity. . . A stunning debut from one of Denmark's leading poets'\u003c\/b\u003e Christina Patterson, author of \u003ci\u003eOutside, the Sky is Blue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'So blunt, so well written, Lolita speaking out, telling her truth. A superb book'\u003c\/b\u003e Dorthe Nors, author of \u003ci\u003eMirror, Shoulder, Signal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gernes, Ulrikka S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56681885761922,"sku":"9781805333821","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9781805333821.jpg?v=1780232248","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.com\/products\/9781805333821","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}