Asta Nordenhof

A bold, lyrical and surprising novel about violence and money, love and desire, and a stand-off with the Devil himself A woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. While she sits out a two-week Covid quarantine in his apartment, she begins to tell her story. Years ago and desperate for money, she sold herself to a stranger called T. He offered her a suitcase full of money and lavish gifts in exchange for total control of her body. In the bed between them lay a large kitchen knife and the promise of an iconic death. But at the last moment, she aborted the treacherous game and fled. Now in London, she reflects on the forces - financial and social - that led her to the brink of destruction, and wonders what it would take to believe in love again. Frank, intimate and dazzling entertaining, The Devil Book is a classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story. This unmissable stand-alone novel is the follow up to the critically-acclaimed Money to Burn.

A groundbreaking, profound and intimate novel about capitalism's effects on the human heart: Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series, a new masterpiece of Danish literature 'Buzzes with electricity… intriguing, maddening, exciting. I'm in' Observer 'Taut and intelligent… a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society' Literary Review Maggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together. Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing 159 people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was revealed not to be an accident, but the result of an insurance scam gone wrong. How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt? How does money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape?

A Scandinavian Star komphajó fedélzetén 1990. április 7-én kitört halálos tűz ügyében a rendőrség csődöt mondott, amikor nem vizsgálta ki az anyagi természetű indítékokat. Évekkel később felbukkant egy nyugalmazott hajófelügyelő és elmondta, hogy az, amit tapasztalt, amikor közvetlenül a tűz után megvizsgálta a hajót, szöges ellentétben van a hivatalos magyarázattal.