{"product_id":"9781805333821","title":"A Girl Left the Room","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ulrikka S. Gernes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 June 2026 by PUSHKIN PRESS in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e215 x 135 x 28 | 340g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57267513295223,"sku":"9781805333821","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781805333821.jpg?v=1783433355","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781805333821","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}