In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities.
One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children.
Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials of the adoption system, they finally open the doors of their Copenhagen home to little Zoe Ukhona.
Pelle’s account, told through letters to his daughter, is brutally honest, heart-wrenchingly tragic, and yet filled with warmth and good humour. It is a story of love, family, and hope.
Highly recommended to those moved by Sarah Sentilles’ “Stranger Care” and 'Finding Chika' by Mitch Albom.
Pelle Hvenegaard first became world famous at twelve years old when he played the lead role in Bille August's Oscar-winning film 'Pelle the Conqueror'. A career in television and broadcast journalism followed. He has written four books on themes of adoption, love and identity.
In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities.
One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children.
Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials of the adoption system, they finally open the doors of their Copenhagen home to little Zoe Ukhona.
Pelle’s account, told through letters to his daughter, is brutally honest, heart-wrenchingly tragic, and yet filled with warmth and good humour. It is a story of love, family, and hope.
Highly recommended to those moved by Sarah Sentilles’ 'Stranger Care' and 'Finding Chika' by Mitch Albom.
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Pelle Hvenegaard first became world famous at twelve years old when he played the lead role in Bille August's Oscar-winning film 'Pelle the Conqueror'. A career in television and broadcast journalism followed. He has written four books on themes of adoption, love and identity.
A book about fighting involuntary childlessness and about the emotions of going through fertility treatments and an adoptions process.
BEST RATED BOOK OF 2018 AND 2019 on Mofibo, Denmark's biggest e-book and audiobook platform.
When one summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline, he knows right away: This woman will be the mother to his children. Their first meeting grows into a blazing romance, and it is quickly clear that the two of them want to have a family together – but biology toys with them.
Dear Zoe Ukhona is Pelle Hvenegaard’s honest, comic, tragic and heartwarming tale of the six-year fertility and adoption hell he and his partner had to go through before they could open the door to their apartment in Copenhagen with little Zoe Ukhona in their arms.
We follow Caroline and Pelle’s arduous inner journey, but we are also with them when – to keep themselves going – they travel to five continents before climbing to the top of Kilimanjaro to call out to their coming child, unaware that she had in fact been born just twenty days earlier in South Africa.
This is a story of love and of dealing with life when it doesn’t go the way you planned. A story about searching for happiness and meaning – and the joy of finding them both.
PELLE HVENEGAARD became world famous as a twelve-year-old when he played the lead role in Bille August’s Oscar-winning film Pelle the Conqueror. He has a degree in journalism and has worked in the TV industry for many years.
From the foreword by Zindzi Mandela: '... on top of being a book about battling childlessness, it's a story of hope, a story of love, a story of fighting for happiness ... it's a story about the meaning of life.'
