What Comes Naturally

Gerd Brantenberg's classic stories of lesbian life in the 1960s

Author

Gerd Brantenberg, translated and edited by the author

Publisher

The Women's Press, London, 1986

Printing Details

First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 112pp.

This is the rarer hardback first printing. "What Comes Naturally describes, often hilariously, the predicament of growing up homosexual in a heterosexual world. Set in Oslo in the 1960s, it is packed with the kind of intrigues and adventure stories usually left in the cupboard. How the heroine and her lover find themselves locked out of their flat, stark naked, with the temperature at ten degrees above freezing... The story of the desperate attempt to erect a camp bed to fool the landlady who pays them and impromptu visit in the middle of the night... What Comes Naturally hits out hard at traditional assumptions about 'normal' and 'abnormal' behaviour."