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It was probably many things, my own mood, the weather, the emptiness of that particular day.\" It turns out that she simply wants, desperately needs, someone to talk to. He listens to her story, spellbound, and from that night he is haunted forever by the clear, honest revelation of a broken soul—as the reader will be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe woman describes her hopeless involvement with her teacher and lover, who continues to see her, always to reject her, long after he is married. Obsessively, she returns to situations in which she is abused. Finally, in confronting her past without self-pity, without denying personal responsibility, she realizes how much her self-destructive behavior owes to a capitalistic and patriarchal system that forces women into roles that make them emotionally and economically dependent. 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But what finally lingers in the reader's mind is the fully developed image of a woman, buffeted by life, coming to terms with God and man.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49949089497361,"sku":"CIN0803233132G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803233132.jpg?v=1786132636"},{"product_id":"nothing-grows-by-moonlight-book-torborg-nedreaas-9780241729663","title":"Nothing Grows by Moonlight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'Breathtakingly powerful' \u003ci\u003eGuardian  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'This startling, absorbing book will leave you fizzing with anger and possibility' Noreen Masud  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful stranger across a station platform. 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Here, darkness and light converge, and unrequited love blooms against the shadows of societal injustices, as she fights for autonomy: over her life, her mind and her body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptivating, visceral and brimming with emotion, \u003ci\u003eNothing Grows by Moonlight\u003c\/i\u003e is a feminist classic of Scandinavian literature, and an uncompromising ode to female desire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51260168175889,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51260168470801,"sku":"GOR014211374","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51473564893457,"sku":"GOR014294592","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52110516945169,"sku":"NGR9780241729663","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52304999416081,"sku":"GOR014502965","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52589335150865,"sku":"NLS9780241729663","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52990755766545,"sku":"GOR014683089","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0241729661.jpg?v=1791629502"},{"product_id":"nothing-grows-by-moonlight-book-torborg-nedreaas-9798217155118","title":"Nothing Grows by Moonlight","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst published in Norway in 1947, this \"breathtakingly powerful\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) novel of one woman's soul-shattering love affair introduces a major twentieth-century international writer to an American audience--translated by Bibbi Lee, with an introduction by Sheila Heti.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A prescient voice that speaks poignantly about the female condition.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"It is really strange what a sense of rhythm life has. 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