Into a star, p.11
Into a Star, page 11
We’re here.
Acknowledgements
I’m eternally grateful to everyone who was there for me and the children.
A special thanks to: my huge family, Lasse’s family, Helene Storgaard Christiansen, Kristine Gottlieb Knudsen, Olm Jakobsen, Kira Bang-Olsson, Tinush Helles Hansen, Camilla Huus Kamstrup, Marianne Riiskjær Gravgaard, Kenneth Sletten Christensen, Karianne Halse, Espen Lunde Nielsen, Sophie Rye Hansen, Allan Bech Hansen, Pernille Juul, Jimmi Hassel Nielsen, Poul Henning Bartholin, Linda Vilhelmsen, Katharine Simpson, Jo Carlsen, the staff at Storkereden Nursery and Godsbanen in Aarhus.
Thank you to my Danish editor, Charlotte Jørgensen, for our close collaboration on this book, thanks to my agent, Laurence Laluyaux, and to my UK editor, Hermione Thompson, for the support, insight and guidance.
And to Hazel Evans, my wonderful English translator: you have gone above and beyond for this novel. I am deeply grateful to you.
Most of all, thank you, Pier. Solo con te.
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First published in Danish as Indien stjerne by GRIF, 2019
First published in this translation by Hamish Hamilton, 2024
Copyright © Puk Qvortrup, 2019
English translation copyright © Hazel Evans, 2024
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Cover photograph © Hordur Sveinsson
This book is published with the support of The Society of Authors and the Authors’ Foundation
This book is published with the support of the Danish Arts Foundation
Lyrics on p. 154 from ‘You’ve Got the Love’ by The Source
Extract from Edward Broadbridge’s translation of ‘Nu falmer skoven trindt om land’ by N. F. S. Grundtvig, English language copyright © 2008 Edward Broadbridge, reproduced by permission of Edward Broadbridge
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