Tova is only twenty, but she has already achieved everything she wanted: a talented poetess married to a respected literary editor. It seems as if her life is a success, and she is unaware of the trials to come: new loves and painful breakups, long-awaited motherhood and the termination of pregnancy, the inability to write and the addiction that destroys everything.

'Addiction' is the final part of the Copenhagen trilogy, an unvarnished story about powerlessness in the face of naked reality, but also about love, care, devotion to one's calling and, ultimately, the uncertain victory of life.

'Ditlevsen's voice—laughing, halting, yet utterly accurate in its assessment of its mistakes—is a welcome addition to the canon of women who have shown us their secret faces so we can wear our own.' — Megan O'Grady for The New York Times

Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976) is one of Denmark's most famous and unique writers. Born and raised in the working-class district of Vesterbro in Copenhagen, she wrote more than thirty books—poetry, novels, and short stories—many of which drew inspiration from autobiography.