# The Trouble with Happiness

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- Authors: [Tove Ditlevsen](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-ditlevsen)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2022-03-03

## Description

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventional roles and finding freedom and happiness - without ever truly understanding what that might mean.

## Editions

### The Trouble with Happiness

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4153-738-1
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2023-03-02
- Language: en_GB

### The Trouble with Happiness

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 25 min
- Narrated by: Stine Wintlev
- ISBN: 978-02-4158-473-6
- Published: 2022-03-03
- Language: en_GB

### The Trouble with Happiness

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-849-7
- Published: 2022-03-03
- Language: en_GB