{"product_id":"a-girl-left-the-room-by-ulrikka-s-gernes","title":"A Girl Left the Room by Ulrikka S. Gernes","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt her father's art exhibition, fourteen-year-old Tanja is introduced to Eg. Handsome and grey-eyed, he is a friend of her parents, a man who makes his living with words and sees something extraordinary in her. Soon, letters begin to arrive at her home in the Swedish forest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages spinning a private fairytale dreamed up just for her, inviting Tanja into a love that promises escape from her lonely childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when the two finally meet, Tanja steps through a door into an adult experience from which there is no return, where desire and excitement soon give way to shame and control. Years later, now a poet herself and armed with the language to name what happened, she uncovers a box of Eg's letters coated with mildew and begins to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHauntingly lyrical and fearlessly honest,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Girl Left the Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a novel about a relationship of intense connection, unequal power and one woman's defiant effort to reclaim the girl she once was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback | Publication: 4 Jun 2026, Pushkin \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781805333821\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 336 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57399339483518,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781805333821.jpg?v=1778597978","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/a-girl-left-the-room-by-ulrikka-s-gernes","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}