Duckling: A Novel

From the author of The Cassandra (“Quirky, funny, dark,” Margaret Atwood), a historical reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s life and a love letter to storytelling as an act of survival

In the early nineteenth century, a boy named Hans lives in poverty in Odense, Denmark, where he and his father escape to a world of their own making through the magic of storytelling by reading stories and plays aloud in their small home. After the death of his beloved father, Hans flees to Copenhagen, wh...