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Elsewhere is a Place in Central Park
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
Publisher: Ecs
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 364
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Sofie has been married for decades.
For most of those years, she has lived alone inside that marriage.
Raised in a working-class neighborhood of Copenhagen, Sofie never imagined the life she would enter when she married into one of Denmark's most powerful families. Embassy galas. Luxury hotels. Political dinners. A world of quiet codes and inherited influence.
But long before the public life settles around her, a single tragic event reshapes everything. What follows is not a dramatic collapse, but something slower and more dangerous: silence, distance, and the steady loss of herself in rooms where she must remain composed.
From Copenhagen to Madrid to New York, Sofie moves through beautiful spaces while her private world narrows. The marriage that elevates her also isolates her. The family that claims her offers status but not safety. What sparkles carries an undertow. What looks like success can feel like exile.
Elsewhere Is a Place in Central Park is a psychologically intimate novel about the cost of crossing thresholds that cannot be uncrossed. It asks what happens when belonging requires endurance, and whether a life can be reclaimed after it has quietly drifted away.
Based on a true story, this is a novel about proximity without closeness, about the unseen turning points that shape a life, and about the quiet courage required to face them.
Original, exceptional, and an fascinating read from cover to cover, Tate has raised her entertaining and thought-provoking novel to an impressive level of literary excellence. - Midwest Book Review
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