Waist Deep

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Waist Deep is an enjoyable page-turner, a sympathetic and perceptive examination of the importance of moving on and letting go ... an evocative debut about the fragility and fluidity of adult friendship * Observer * A beautiful and sensuous book that stayed with me long after I read it * Daily Mail * Waist Deep trembles and flashes with hot emotion, confusion and pangs of longing. I loved its cast of characters and their reaching towards what their lives might be together, and alone -- Amy Key Waist Deep is such an enjoyable read: clever, wry, and incredibly sexy. In Linea Maja Ernst's gorgeous prose, translated superbly by Sherilyn Hellberg, the clotty intersections of desire, ideology, and ennui are explored in the most vividly luxuriant surroundings. I was totally besotted with these characters, and desperate for a dip in a lake by the end. -- Susannah Dickey Sensuous and vivid. Simmering with sexual tension and with an undercurrent of deep longing - for a different life, for each other - there is something here that every adult with a group of friends will recognise (even if they won't admit it). A book to devour and enjoy every minute of -- Laura Kay Delicious, and provocative -- Esther Freud I devoured it in a day and absolutely adored ... I loved spending time by the lake with these characters watching them fall in and out of love with each other -- Brydie Lee-Kennedy Hot, heady and beautifully queer, Waist Deep pulls you under and doesn't let go. I felt every breath, every touch, every impossible desire. It's a novel that lives in the body -- Lotte Jeffs An intense, confrontational and in every sense interesting novel about the fragility and (for some) fluidity of identity * Information * Linea Maja Ernst writing about opulent dinner parties and the heady magnetism of midsummer forests is sensory and atmospheric * Soundvenue * Shamelessly entertaining * Kristeligt Dagblad * A perfume dream of a debut about the wild force of friendship * Politiken * Waist Deep might be this literary year's first full fledged miracle * Berlingske * A completely superb and playful contemporary novel ... Its pages ooze life lived, the gallery of characters is razor-sharp, the dialogue is flawless and the spry cultural references tie it all neatly together into a drama worthy of Virginia Woolf * Euroman * Linea Maja Ernst writes about sexual desire so well that it turns her readers on... at once silly and fragile, flirtatious and sensitive * Weekendavisen *