Elsie Lindtner, forty-two and comfortably married, divorces her husband and withdraws to a lonely villa to face growing older on her own terms. Through letters to friends and pages from her diary she examines vanity, desire, friendship and the fear of age with startling frankness. The French edition’s introduction by Marcel Prévost is included.
A Danish novel that caused a sensation in Europe for its candour about women’s middle age. Download the free EPUB.