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Vigdis Hjorth & Lauren Oyler: If Only

Vigdis Hjorth & Lauren Oyler: If Only

<em>If Only</em> – first published in Norway in 2001, and now brought into English by Charlotte Barslund – is viewed in Norway as Vigdis Hjorth’s masterpiece, a story of the devastation wreaked on one woman’s life by an ill-advised affair. Hjorth (whose other novels in English include <em>Is Mother Dead?</em>, <em>Will and Testament </em>and <em>Long Live the Post Horn!</em>) is in conversation about the novel with Lauren Oyler, whose own debut novel, <em>Fake Accounts</em>, was published in 2021, and whose essay collection <em>No Judgement </em>came out earlier this year.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

London Review Bookshop Podcast

February 12, 202558m 34s

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If Only – first published in Norway in 2001, and now brought into English by Charlotte Barslund – is viewed in Norway as Vigdis Hjorth’s masterpiece, a story of the devastation wreaked on one woman’s life by an ill-advised affair. Hjorth (whose other novels in English include Is Mother Dead?, Will and Testament and Long Live the Post Horn!) is in conversation about the novel with Lauren Oyler, whose own debut novel, Fake Accounts, was published in 2021, and whose essay collection No Judgement came out earlier this year.

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