A review by coops456
The Blind Goddess by Anne Holt
3.0
Interesting Norwegian police procedural.
It's set in the early 1990s and it's jarring just how dated that seems. But of course it's 25 years ago now and thankfully we've moved on. From obvious things like technology - all fax and no email - to social attitudes. Deeply closeted police detective Hanne Wilhelmsen's sexuality is detailed thus:
"She loved another woman, a defect in this otherwise perfect human being, the public admission of which she was convinced would destroy everything she had spent so many years building up."
How quickly we forget that even in liberal Scandinavia, societal acceptance of gay people is a recent advance.
It's set in the early 1990s and it's jarring just how dated that seems. But of course it's 25 years ago now and thankfully we've moved on. From obvious things like technology - all fax and no email - to social attitudes. Deeply closeted police detective Hanne Wilhelmsen's sexuality is detailed thus:
"She loved another woman, a defect in this otherwise perfect human being, the public admission of which she was convinced would destroy everything she had spent so many years building up."
How quickly we forget that even in liberal Scandinavia, societal acceptance of gay people is a recent advance.