Deres ægteskab bliver disharmonisk og spændingsfyldt og levner hende ikke mange muligheder for den frihed og selvstændighed hun kan drømme om

når alt er brudt sammen

Han har udgivet en lang række anmelderroste romaner og fik i 2007 sit folkelige gennembrud med romanen Mærkedage

om død og liv

En utænkelig forelskelse

Returning to Reims Deres ægteskab bliver disharmonisk og"There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class why had it never occurred to me to take up this problem in a book?" Returning to Reims is a breathtaking account of one man's return to the town where he grew up after an absence of thirty years. It is a frank, fearlessly personal story of