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They certainly bring out the moodiness of the Danish dark side, if there is one – here are disabled people accepting being conned, a woman facing at least emotional isolation and abuse in the marriage bed, the musings of a woman in the hairdresser's about how little she knows a neighbour, lads seeing their dads as imperfect for the first time, and people obsessing with female serial killers. One is even called 'She Frequented Cemeteries' which says it all. A couple of the pieces picked themselves off the page and presented themselves in a better light, but on the whole they were about the premise and emotion more than the plot and the event. Three stars for these pieces – none of which bear anything like the inventive telling of the other half to the volume – meaning this as a whole is a fair-to-middling shop window for an evidently thoughtful and creative, if not utterly enjoyable, young author.

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