An Artist’s Home
Amalie Laulund Trudsø
Original title: Kunstnerhjem
Publisher: Gutkind, Denmark, 2025
Genre: Novel
Pages: 269 pages
An Artist’s Home takes place over four decades from the 1940s to the 1970s and depicts the period in a woman’s life from late childhood until her own children have left home.
Signe grows up in comfortable circumstances, her father a well-to-do veterinary surgeon, but driven by her urge to draw and paint she marries Johan with dreams of living a different life in which art is at the forefront. But realities prevail and after some years Johan leaves her on her own with three children for whom she must struggle to provide.
It is a journey through social class, but also through the life of a woman and mother, where freedom and independence, and the right to one’s own body, come at a price.