A Girl Left the Room

<p><b>When you're fourteen, there is no afterwards.</b></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Hauntingly lyrical and fearlessly honest, <i>A Girl Left the Room</i> is the story of one woman's fight to reclaim the girl she once was.</p><p><b>'Gripping, chilling, and extraordinarily clear-eyed. . . A novel that everybody should read'</b> Rosie Price, author of <i>What Red Was</i></p><p><b>'An entire world of complicity unfolds moment by moment. . . It kept me pinned to the page'</b> Sîan Hughes, author of <i>Pearl</i></p><p><b>'It's compelling. It's shocking. It's hypnotic in its clarity. . . A stunning debut from one of Denmark's leading poets'</b> Christina Patterson, author of <i>Outside, the Sky is Blue</i></p><p><b>'So blunt, so well written, Lolita speaking out, telling her truth. A superb book'</b> Dorthe Nors, author of <i>Mirror, Shoulder, Signal</i></p>