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Money to Burn

By: Asta Olivia Nordenhof
Narrated by: Freya Miller
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A dazzling work of fiction and a true-crime investigation into the unshakeable hold of money, greed and desire on us all.

Maggie and Kurt are a couple struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in a old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together.

Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing hundreds of people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was revealed not to be an accident, but the result of an insurance scam gone wrong.

How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt's relationship? How does money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape?

©2025 Asta Olivia Nordenhof (P)2025 Penguin Audio Crime Fiction Family Life Literary Fiction

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Nordenhof's writing crackles with indignation, conviction, ferocious wit, and savvy human insight. Startling, irresistible, and thoroughly enlivening, reading her words is not unlike looking at the entrancing flames of a tremendous fire (Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19)
A comet in Scandinavian literature. Her sentences are like lightning, they hold great beauty and destruction. Funny, furious and masterful – Money to Burn is a declaration of war against capitalism (Olga Ravn, author of My Work)
Money to Burn is direct and full of fervour. I loved how fast it makes it moves and how much grandeur it achieves. I need the next instalment desperately (Adam Thirlwell, author of The Future Future)
It contains both the scale of a grand epic with the careful and clarified language of a Claire Keegan novel. So rich in its storytelling, sense of place and characterisation that even in its darkest moments it's impossible to look away [...] Entirely intoxicating and compulsive, this is a story in the hands of an utterly remarkable writer, and has me very much desperate to read more. Perfect (Ore Agbaje-Williams)

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