# Childhood, Youth, Dependency

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- Book: [Childhood, Youth, Dependency](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-ditlevsen/childhood-youth-dependency) ([Childhood, Youth, Dependency.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-ditlevsen/childhood-youth-dependency.md))
- Authors: [Tove Ditlevsen](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-ditlevsen)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-358-4
- Published: 2021-01-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen, Tove feels that her childhood is made for a completely different girl. As 'long, mysterious words begin to crawl across my soul', she comes to understand that she has a vocation that will define her life. Her path seems assured, but she has no idea of the struggles ahead - love affairs, wanted and unwanted pregnancies, artistic failure and destructive addiction. As the years go by, the central tension of Tove's life comes into painful focus: the terrible lure of dependency, in all its forms, and the possibility of living freely and fearlessly - as an artist on her own terms.