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As the 25th anniversary of their sewing circle-turned-supper club nears, journalist Tamara, translator Sara, teacher Eva, and homemaker Liss plan a trip to Copenhagen to celebrate. Uri's second novel (published in Norway in 2002) is a glimpse into the lives of these four urban women in the six months leading up to that fateful trip. Between meal preparation and gossip, readers learn that there is much more to these women than meets the eye. Uri gets into the minds of her characters, highlighting all that is spiteful, deceitful, and naive about them, eventually revealing the secrets, lies, and codependencies that have kept them together for all these years. The result is a novel both compelling and horrifying. Dickson's adept translation eases the navigation of the complex psychological landscapes. Most likely to be purchased by academic libraries, this novel is also appropriate for other large and specialized fiction collections.—Karen Walton Morse, Univ. at Buffalo Libs., NY