The Destructive Force of Romantic Love
Vigdis Hjorth’s If Only explores just how devastating love can be when it binds the wrong people.
‘Her mere presence made other people feel ill at ease, and on her agonising journey home, she realised that she could never be safe, comfortable or relax in the company of other people, and that she never really had, she thought; her true fragile self was suddenly back.’
A short story by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund