A groundbreaking profound and intimate novel about capitalism's effects on the human heart:
Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series a new masterpiece of Danish
literature * 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
