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Waist Deep is a modern midsummer night's dream about friends, lovers and friends' lovers; about sex, hope and love; and about dreaming that everything could be different. Five friends from university; seven summer days in a lakeside cabin in Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt,...
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Waist Deep is a modern midsummer night's dream about friends, lovers and friends' lovers; about sex, hope and love; and about dreaming that everything could be different.
Five friends from university; seven summer days in a lakeside cabin in Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and recreate the magic of their youth.
At least that's what Sylvia had hoped. But then her friends arrive with real jobs, kids and partners. Worse, Esben (her decades-long crush) and Karen announce their plan to get married at the end of the week.
As desire and anxiety swirl, and the wedding day approaches, will the group achieve their arcadian dreams or will everything come tumbling down?
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ISBN: 9781529954388
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Contributors:
- Translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 170g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Linea Maja Ernst (Author) 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 (Translator) 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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