BookBrowse Reviews The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

Most mornings, Iðunn wakes up bloodied, bruised, and battered, sometimes missing fingernails. She doesn't remember what happened during the night to cause this. She isn't addicted to drugs or alcohol, and, as far as she knows, she doesn't suffer from any debilitating mental illnesses. Her doctor appears to lack solutions for her. Her relationship with her family is nearly non-existent. She's running out of people to turn to. Every day, exhaustion cripples her. Her energy goes. She starts skipping work. Panic begins to set in. Little by little, she stops being able to recognize herself, and all the while, a violent ex-lover, Stefán, looms in the distance like a shark fin bobbing in the water.

What do you do when your world seems like it's falling apart all around you, and when even before the incident that set things off, you were barely holding it together? In Hildur Kn...