The Danish Girl: The Sunday Times bestseller and Oscar-winning movie starring Alicia Vikander and Eddie Redmayne
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By David Ebershoff, and and, Joe Jameson
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Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?
It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires.
The Danish Girl is an evocative and deeply moving novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century.Read by Joe Jameson
(p) 2015 Orion Publishing Group
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We had a lot of empathy for Einar (Lili) and how hard it must have been for him to not understand why he felt the way he did back in the 1920s. We also wondered if Einar had been exploited by Dr. Warnekros in the name of science.
