Sofie has been married for decades.

She has not shared a life with her husband for most of them.

Raised working class in Copenhagen and later drawn into the orbit of one of Denmark’s most powerful families, a single tragic event rearranges her fate, altering the future before it has begun.

Raw and unceremonious, yet vast in consequence, Elsewhere Is a Place in Central Park weighs the permanent cost of crossing thresholds that cannot be uncrossed. From embassy galas to luxury hotels, from Copenhagen to Madrid to New York, Sofie must maintain composure while her inner life is held in silent, endless peril just beneath the surface. What sparkles carries its own undertow. What feels like ascent can become a form of exile. She learns, slowly, that the deepest turning points in a life are often the ones no one sees.

Luminous, unsettling, and exacting, Elsewhere Is a Place in Central Park is a work of moral gravity based on a true story. A novel about belonging where you were never meant to be.