# Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien (Paperback)

**"Highly recommended" _Sunday Times_**  
  
**"Utterly captivating" _Woman and Home_**  
  
**"Sympathetic and clear-eyed" _Financial Times_ Summer Reads of 2021  
  
****"Unfailingly impressive" _Irish Times_**  
  
**"Sparse and precise" _Telegraph_**  
  
**"A beautiful novel of what it is to be a women in modern Europe" _New European_**  
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"_An intelligent study of female desire, ambition and frailty" _Observer_**  
  
Bookseller **Paula** has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent **Judith** thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn't stop her looking for love online. **Brida** is a writer with no time to write, until she faces a choice between her work and her family. Abandoned by the "perfect" man, **Malika** struggles for recognition from her parents. Her sister **Jorinde**, an actor, is pregnant for a third time, but how can she provide for her family alone?  
  
_Love in Five Acts_ explores what is left to five women when they have fulfilled their roles as wives, mothers, friends, lovers, sisters and daughters. As teenagers they experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall, but freedom brings with it another form of pressure: the pressure of choice.  
  
Punchy and entirely of the moment, _Love in Five Acts_ engages head-on with what it is to be a woman in the twenty-first century.  
  
**Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch**

## Details

- **Price:** 9.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** MacLehose Press
- **Tags:** All Books, Romance

## Variants

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