The Trouble with Happiness

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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.

© Tove Ditlevsen 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

  • Ditlevsen’s writing is crystal clear and vividly, painfully raw

    The Paris Review

  • A terrifying talent

    The New York Times

  • Her writing is incredible, so focused and clear. Not a word that doesn’t need to be there

    Tracey Thorn

  • A beautifully written, resilient and relatable chronicle for the marginalized’ (praise for Childhood, Youth, Dependency)

    Patti Smith

  • Utterly, agonisingly compulsive . . . A masterpiece’ (praise for Childhood, Youth, Dependency)

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