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Girl Left the Room

Ulrikka S. Gernes
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coming of age
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internalised shame
literary fiction
loss of innocence
manipulation
metoo
power imbalance
sexual awakening
sexual grooming
swedish forest
translated fiction
woman reclaiming her own story

Product details

  • ISBN 9781805333821
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jun 2026
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

When you're fourteen, there is no afterwards.

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.

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.

Hauntingly lyrical and fearlessly honest, A Girl Left the Room is the story of one woman's fight to reclaim the girl she once was.

'Gripping, chilling, and extraordinarily clear-eyed. . . A novel that everybody should read' Rosie Price, author of What Red Was

'An entire world of complicity unfolds moment by moment. . . It kept me pinned to the page' Sîan Hughes, author of Pearl

'It's compelling. It's shocking. It's hypnotic in its clarity. . . A stunning debut from one of Denmark's leading poets' Christina Patterson, author of Outside, the Sky is Blue

'So blunt, so well written, Lolita speaking out, telling her truth. A superb book' Dorthe Nors, author of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
About Ulrikka S. Gernes
Ulrikka S. Gernes is a Danish poet and writer. She was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2016 and later served as a juror. She has received multiple grants from the Danish Arts Foundation and is also the author of several children's books. Her debut novel, A Girl Left the Room, became a Danish bestseller. Ulrikka has an adult daughter and lives in Copenhagen in an apartment filled with art and books. Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, German, and Norwegian into English. Her work includes translations of authors such as Caroline Albertine Minor, Ingvild Rishøi, Maren Uthaug, and Dorthe Nors. She was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and received a special commendation in the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Caroline is based near London.

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