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Katharina Volckmer challenges our notions of what is fluid and what is fixed and injects a dose of Bernhardian snark into contemporary British fiction

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The Trouble With Happiness And Other Stories plants it is the exhibition thatA newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wifes beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in mid century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happywithout ever truly