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When is it time to let go?

In the small Danish town of Rødby in the 1980s, a mother and sixteen-year-old daughter live uneventfully, until the mother begins to experience symptoms of terminal illness. As an act of defiance, they talk about anything and everything but the impending diagnosis, almost as if it doesn’t exist. Yet the imminent loss lingers over their every experience and conversation, infecting the humoristic and warm tone of the novel. Taking place over a year, the relationship between mother and daughter is tender and caring, fragile and raw.

From award-winning author Helle Helle, they is a story of illness, love and stepping over the threshold of adult life. The mother and daughter are not named: they is the two of them, which will soon disappear.