{"product_id":"9781804298947","title":"Repetition : A Novel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Vigdis Hjorth\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 March 2026 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Verso Fiction' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 144 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 12 | 132g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividness, exposing a story both utterly familiar and desperately strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was the year she first got drunk, the year she first had sex with a boy. She was watched like a hawk by an anxious mother and a silent, distant father. It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Repetition, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56792108564855,"sku":"9781804298947","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781804298947.jpg?v=1772012818","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781804298947","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}