Vilhelms Room – Tove Ditlevsen

The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author of The Copenhagen Trilogy

I want to write a book about Vilhelms room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lises death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm… The ripples from a breakup radiate outwards from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train of tragicomic events that lead to an inevitable conclusion. Tove Ditlevsens final novel published a year before her suicide in 1976 is a masterful conclusion to a great work of writing: a blackly funny and devastating tour-de-force that pulses with life even as it journeys towards death.