Hey Hafni

Hey Hafni

Helle Helle

Original title: Hey Hafni
Publisher: Gutkind, 2025
Genre: Novel

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Hafni’s gone to Brighton for three months to rediscover her zest for life. Brighton is England’s fourth-happiest city – but then her brother arrives. Her quest for alone time takes her via a muddy riverside path, an antique dealer and his wife, a fluorescent green cooperative, Virginia Woolf’s bed, a forgotten pudding, the Wish Tower, a chiropodist, and Our Billy. All while trying to escape “the third hand”.

Along the way, she writes letters home to an old friend – who is perhaps the one writing the novel.

Hey Hafni expands the universe of Helle’s previous novels they, Boband Hafni Says.

Danish publication date: April 2025

Foreign rights

English (UK): Akoya Publishing House

Helle Helle

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Helle Helle (b. 1965) is a graduate of the Danish Academy of Creative Writing and the author of a number of novels as well as two collections of short fiction. She is one of Scandinavia’s most original writers, with a career spanning three decades, from her debut Example of Life (1993) to her most recent novel, Hafni Says, published to rave reviews in 2023. Her books have been translated into 22 languages.

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