Reviews about Helle Stangerup
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In the Courts of Power
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Helle Stangerup is a superb storyteller. She spins a good yarn into a drama of great power, and she tells it in light and flowing language ... (...) It is an exciting historical novel.
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Reviewed in Aalborg Stiftstidende, 19 January 1986
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St. Mark's Night
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- Faith in the wonderful and the controlling force of love are two pivotal themes in Helle Stangerup’s new novel, which is a work of mastery. (…) One can agree or disagree with the novel’s distinguishing between new faith and old. One could say that the faith which springs from the heart is warm if the heart is. Luther or not. But in any event, it is sheer joy to read Helle Stangerup’s new novel – no less than a small miracle, which rises in time. Sankt Markus Nat (St. Mark's Night) will burst the bestseller lists not only for the rest of the year but far into the new!
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Liselotte Wiemer in Det fri Aktuelt, 10 September 1992
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Stepfather
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Helle Stangerup has returned to her own times and to the suspense genre, and a formidable novel has come out of it. Stedfar (Stepfather) is tremendously suspenseful, and a sharp-focus portrait of the dirty world of finance known from the media coverage of the latest series of scandal-ridden bankruptcies. (...) A large job of research must have gone in advance of the book, for there is impressive credibility in the description of the outwardly so respectable finance moguls. Most impressive, however, is the escalation of the suspense which takes place in the novel, with the result that you sit with bated breath until every page has been read. Here chills and splatter effects are unneccesary. Helle Stangerup has pulled off a new virtuoso triumph for the refined, intelligent suspense novel with a bite on society and human folly.
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Vibeke Blaksteen in Kristeligt Dagblad, 18 November 1995
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