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{{newreview|author= Helle Helle and Martin Aitken (translator)|title=This Should be Written in the Present Tense|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= This is the first novel of Helle Helle's, an award winning Danish author, to be translated into English. It is easy to see from this novel why she is gaining accolades in her Danish homeland. The rhythmic, natural flow of the narrative is mesmerising and appears to lull you through the book. It has some lovely, spare sentences of description: ''There were run-down cottages with open doors and news on the radio. Gulls flocked around an early harvester in the late sun''. But mostly, it is written in a modernist, almost stream of consciousness style, which I found refreshing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587475</amazonuk>}}
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