'' Waist Deep might be this literary year''s first full fledged miracle'' Berlingske Five friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and mess around like in the old days. At least that''s what Sylvia had hoped. But when her friends arrive with real jobs, kids and partners, Sylvia is left wondering what happened to the radical ways of living they embraced at university. Worse, Esben and Karen announce their wedding, striking a blow to Sylvia''s simmering, decades-long crush on Esben - a crush that her monogamous girlfriend Charlie would definitely not approve of. Within the rest of the group, desire and anxiety swirl in equal measure. Quince finally feels at home in his body and is ready to rave, but Gry''s kids have bedtime routines that get in the way. And Gry has also brought her husband Adam, the poster child for a heterosexual masculinity Quince can''t decide if he wants to tear down or tie down. An instant bestseller in Scandinavia and now translated into ten languages, Waist Deep is a modern midsummer night''s dream adding a sensuous, provocative flourish to the perennial question: does growing up have to mean giving up on your dreams? ''A perfume dream of a debut'' Politiken ''Linea Maja Ernst writes about sexual desire so well that it turns her readers on'' Weekendavisen

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Linea Maja Ernst is a staff writer at the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen, where she writes about literature, pop culture and private life. Waist Deep is her debut novel and was an instant bestseller on first publication in Denmark in 2024. Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg is a writer and literary translator based in Copenhagen. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, among other places, and her translation of Jonas Eika's After the Sun from the Danish was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

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**A luscious summer novel about friends, lovers, and friends' lovers

'An evocative debut about the fragility and fluidity of adult friendship' Observer

A summer reading pick in BBC Culture, Vogue, and Esquire****

Five friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and mess around like in the old days.

At least that's what Sylvia had hoped. But when her friends arrive with real jobs, kids and partners, Sylvia is left wondering what happened to the radical ways of living they embraced at university. Worse, Esben and Karen announce their plan to get married at the end of the week, striking a blow to Sylvia's simmering, decades-long crush on Esben - a crush that her monogamous girlfriend Charlie would definitely not approve of.

Whilst the group swim, sunbathe, cook and flirt their way to midsummer night, desire and anxiety swirl in equal measure. As the wedding day approaches, will they achieve their arcadian dreams or will everything come tumbling down?

'Hot, heady and beautifully queer, Waist Deep pulls you under and doesn't let go' LOTTE JEFFS

'A beautiful and sensuous book that stayed with me long after I read it' Daily Mail

**'Delicious, and provocative' ESTHER FREUD

'Trembles and flashes with hot emotion, confusion and pangs of longing' AMY KEY**

'Clever, wry, and incredibly sexy' SUSANNAH DICKEY

'Sensuous and vivid... A book to devour' LAURA KAY