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Tove Ditlevsen: Youth (Penguin Modern Classics) [2019] paperback HBFIC In the long run'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian The second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth century writers Forced to leave school early, Tove embarks on a chequered career in a string of low paid, menial jobs. But she is hungry: for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As Europe slides