Repetition - Vigdis Hjorth This shockingly sexy novel rocketed

This shockingly sexy novel rocketed its teenage author into overnight fame in the 1920s - and was all the more scandalous for being based on his life

into the flowerbed

who adapted it into a film - is one of literature's deepest explorations of doubt

Perhaps for the first time in his life

is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes

Repetition - Vigdis Hjorth This shockingly sexy novel rocketedAs 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. It 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