# The Trouble with Happiness

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- Authors: [Tove Ditlevsen](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-ditlevsen)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-849-7
- Published: 2022-03-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.