Publication Date: 07/09/2023 ISBN: 9781782277972 Category:

A Line in the World

Dorthe Nors, Caroline Waight

Publisher: Pushkin Press
Publication Date: 07/09/2023 ISBN: 9781782277972 Category:
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

New in paperback: an exhilarating, moving account of life on the wild Danish coast, from one of Denmark’s most acclaimed writers

‘A beautiful, melancholy account of finding home on a restless coast’ Katherine May, author of Wintering

This is the story of the windswept coastline that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to the Netherlands, a world of shipwrecks and storm surges, of cold-water surfers and resolute sailors’ wives. In spellbinding prose, award-winning writer Dorthe Nors invites the reader to travel through the landscape where her family lived for generations and which she now calls home. It is an extraordinarily powerful and beautiful journey through history and memory – the landscape’s as well as her own.

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FURTHER PRAISE FOR A LINE IN THE WORLD

‘A place brimming with memories and strangeness, where storms surge and lighthouses blink… fascinating’ Financial Times

‘A singular prose stylist… Nors is such a great companion, honest and curious and surprising’ Max Porter, author of Lanny

‘Brilliant… a personal, poetic meditation on this remote edge of windswept landscapes and wildwaters’ New York Times

‘The perfect winter read, making a virtue of dark nights and frost-bitten winds on the author’s native North Sea coast’ Observer

‘A deep dive into a coastal landscape, both breathtaking and hypnotic’ Natasha Carthew, author of Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience</i)

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