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Repetition

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By: Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund - Translator - translator
Narrated by: Nicole Poole
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Summary

One of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young

As 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 fixation and typical teenage frivolity, and of all the usual parental fretting. Until something else took hold, and her family made an unspoken decision and a terrible sacrifice. Only now, decades later, can these events come close to being comprehended.

In Repetition, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.

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I have twice left very positive reviews of this book . They have been initially posted and then disappear? I don't seem to be able to get a response from Audible to restore the initial reviews so I'll repeat what I said - that this book is a tour de force. The experience of the main character is not so much described as entered into as you read. I love all Vigdis Hjorth's novels which are
psychologically astute and emotionally compelling.

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