Name: This Should Be Written in the Present Tense
ISBN: 9781448182930

Helle Helle

A beautifully intimate novel from award-winning Danish novelist, Helle Helle This should be written in the present tense. But it isn’t. Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she’s not. She should probably put some curtains up in her new place. And maybe stop sleeping with her neighbour’s boyfriend. Perhaps things don’t always work out the way they should.

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

respectfully, but this is such a Danish book? Somehow? 

I was intrigued by her minimalistic way of writing, but it was a bit repetitive for me. Like boyfriend, cheating, another boyfriend, she lies about her life. 

Denisse Garcia Ramírez 

respectfully, but this is such a Danish book? Somehow? 

I was intrigued by her minimalistic way of writing, but it was a bit repetitive for me. Like boyfriend, cheating, another boyfriend, she lies about her life. 

interesting, I guess? 

azliana aziz

A beautifully intimate novel from award-winning Danish novelist, Helle Helle This should be written in the present tense. But it isn't. Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she's not. She should probably put some curtains up in her new place. And maybe stop sleeping with her neighbour's boyfriend. Perhaps things don't always work out the way they should.

Simona Paunova

Toyah Blackburn

Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She remembers her ex, Per – the first boyfriend she tells us about, and the first she leaves – as she enters a new world of transient relationships, random sexual experiences and awkward attempts to write.

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

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