A young mother follows her partner to a rural community in West Jutland Denmark where he
teaches at the local school for adult education. Isolated she is forced to find her way in a
bewildering community and in the inscrutable conversational forms of the local population. A
young woman relocates to an outlying community in West Jutland Denmark and is forced to find
her way not only in the bewildering environment of the residential Folk High School where her
partner has been hired to teach but also in the inscrutable conversational forms of the local
population. And on top of it all there's the small matter of juggling her roles as mother to a
newborn baby and advice columnist in the local newspaper. In this understated and hilarious
novel Stine Pilgaard conjures a tale of venturing into new and uncharted land of human
relationships dilemmas and the ways and byways of social intercourse.
