"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."
Translated by Caroline Waight
Paperback.
