Literature and Fiction · Hardback

The Leading Role

Norwegian title: Hovedrollen

Victoria Durnak

In The Leading Role by Victoria Durnak, a woman who is not pregnant creates a picture of some baby clothes meant to delicately suggest that she is. She spends a long time editing the photo. Just to feel what it would be like. If it were true. If she had something to reveal.

Then, by mistake, she shares the photo anyway. And the world starts to react.

And what does she do – this woman who is not pregnant – now that the congratulations are pouring in? Now that she finally has the leading role?