The three chapters of Ditlevsen’s life are mesmerizing. Each feels so different from the other as the writing style subtly shifts along her own personal growth, with brief interspersed reflections of endings and beginnings that serve as a background thread throughout her story. Childhood is beautifully written and is at all parts of the book the most melancholic period to which Ditlevsen frequently comes back to. Youth is energetic, spontaneous and hopeful adding an important momentum to the book. The narrative from then on has a certain ebb and flow that culminates at the claustrophobic part two of Dependency which was extremely gripping and distressing. This is easily the best book I have read.