In the aftermath of a national disaster a couple look back on their marriage and what it cost
them in this groundbreaking novel about capitalism's effect on the human heart * Guardian best
translated fiction of 2025* 'Buzzes with electricity... intriguing maddening exciting. I'm
in' Observer 'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' Guardian Maggie and Kurt
are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They
live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other unable to discuss the
events that brought them together. Decades ago a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star
caught fire killing 159 people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark
and Norway. Years later it was revealed not to be an accident but the result of an insurance
scam gone wrong. How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt? How does
money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape? 'Taut
and intelligent... a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society'
Literary Review 'A comet in Scandinavian literature' OLGA RAVN 'Startling and irresistible'
CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT 'Unusual fascinating and complicated in the best way' CLAIRE FULLER
'Nordenhof's writing is electrifying' CHETNA MAROO
