Tova is only twenty, but she's already achieved everything she ever wanted: a talented poet married to a respected literary editor. Her life seems to be a success, unaware of the trials to come: new loves and painful breakups, long-awaited motherhood and miscarriages, the inability to write, and an addiction that destroys everything.

"Addiction" is the final part of the Copenhagen trilogy, an unvarnished story of powerlessness in the face of naked reality, but also of love, care, devotion to one's calling, and, ultimately, the uncertain triumph of life.

Ditlevsen's voice—laughing, halting, yet utterly precise in its assessment of her own mistakes—is a welcome addition to the canon of women who have shown us their secret faces so we can wear our own. —Megan O'Grady for The New York Times