A young woman grapples with grief and single parenthood after the sudden tragic death of her husband - beautifully wise and intimate autofiction 'Three in the bed. One not yet born, another dead, and I'm alive.' Puk is 26 years old, preparing for the birth of her second child, when her husband has a heart attack on his morning run. She leaves their toddler with a friend and dashes to the hospital, where Lasse lies unresponsive in a coma. He dies a few hours later. Into a Star follows Puk and her young family for one year after this tragedy, which has shattered the ordinary life she thought she would live, as she finds her way slowly through the enormous grief and, eventually, out the other side. With remarkable dignity, candour and attention to the domestic details that make us human, Puk Qvortrup invites us into the hardest moments of her life. And she reveals, amid the devastation, a powerful thread of hope.

Details

ISBN13: 9780241682227
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 240
Edition:
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 21.5(H)x13.5(L)x1.9(W)253
Weight (gm): 253

Author Biography

Puk Qvortrup (Author) Puk Qvortrup is a journalist, teacher and author. Her debut novel, Into A Star, was published in Denmark in 2019. Her second novel, Man and Child, was published in 2022, and she is currently working on her third. She lives in Aarhus with her husband and four children. Hazel Evans (Translator) Hazel Evans is an artist, writer and translator based in Aarhus. She is currently translating The Fathership by Glenn Bech and Girlbeast by Cecilie Lind into English.

Reviews

Into A Star is written with an immediate simplicity that it's impossible to resist. A private tragedy reminiscent of Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. But Puk Qvortrup writes younger, more exposed, more from the body * Svenska Dagbladet *
An unusually strong debut novel. The author writes with a clarity and purity that goes straight to the heart of her reader * Nordjyske *
Overwhelming. Tough and beautiful, a brave and insistent novel * Jyllands-Posten *