{"product_id":"9781804298947","title":"Repetition : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Hjorth, Vigdis \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished 03\/03\/2026 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom as part of the Verso Fiction series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaperback | 144 pages\u003c\/p\u003e197 x 130 x 12mm | 132g\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Repetition, award-winning novelist Vigdis Hjorth explores through fiction the parts of childhood that chime through the decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tales on Market Street","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491386556622,"sku":"9781804298947","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7727\/4318\/files\/9781804298947.jpg?v=1776348471","url":"https:\/\/top-hatandtales.co.uk\/products\/9781804298947","provider":"Top Hat \u0026 Tales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}