A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.
bookshelves: published-2006, paper-read, under-500-ratings, spring-2014, one-penny-wonder, fantasy, time-slip, love, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts, denmark, copenhagen, amusing, next
Description: In fin-de-siecle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies of dubious talent to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897. But the home of their neurotic new employer, the widow Krak, soon reveals itself to be riddled with dark secrets - including the existence of a demonic machine rumoured to swallow people alive. Rudely catapulted into twenty-first-century London, the hapless duo discover a whole new world of glass, labour-saving devices and hectic, impossible romance.
Many blurbs for this book, however this one is on the cover...
'Unashamedley gleeful: a kind of topsy-turvy Jane Eyre with added time travel... Sit back, suspend your disbelief and enjoy' Daily Mail
Dedication: For Matti, Raphaël and Laura
Opening: Last night I deamed I went to Østerbro again, flying towards my little quadrant of Copenhagen streets just as a fairy might, or a homing bird.
The beginning opens out in 1897 and our narrator is a street girl totally broke because her two main clients have abandoned her. The one to jail for fraud, and the other a bad oyster rendered him a metre under.
Too slapstick for my taste, although I am amazed at the scope that Liz Jemsen picks to wrie about.
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5* The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Trivia: Liz Jensen is married to author Carsten Jensen:
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3* I Have Seen the World Begin
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