Tone Ørvik

Only For One Week

Bare for en uke

Christine’s parents are moving to Africa to help save the children in Sudan. Christine is against the idea because she doesn’t want to go to a boarding school in Africa. She wagers that she can live like the homeless children in Dublin for a week to prove that she is capable of taking care of herself and that she doesn’t need her parents.

Christine cuts her hair and disguises herself as a boy. She believes that life on the streets will be about freedom, but over the course of the long and dramatic week she learns a lot about friendship, poverty and need. Not to mention what she learns about herself and her own motives.

Cappelen Damm 2009

Photo: Bradford Matthews

Tone Ørvik has spent most of her adult life living abroad. She is a visual artist and glass artisan. Before devoting all her time to art, she worked
as a writer and teacher.

Only for One Week is her first book.