I am still undecided about my thoughts on this book. There were things I liked about it, alongside things I despised. 
 Long story short, the book follows two young characters, Greta and Einar. They are both talented danish painters. Their love story is pretty bizare, as Greta started it all while Einar was her teacher, and he never admitted he wanted it. The actual book however is focusing on another young girl - named Lily. She was born one day when Greta was painting a portrait of a woman and asked Einar to pose for her wearing a dress and a pair of high-heels. That moment was when Einar realized there is another personality living inside of him and decides to discover it. After discovering Lily, both characters try to figure out what to do, paying a visit to almost every doctor in Paris, most of which just called this person schizophrenic or insane. 
 My first problem with this book was that I jumped into it without knowing anything about it. And I think it is not the book you should be reading like that. At least in my case... It got me unprepared. Secondly, for me, it was unexplicably hard to read. It took me a lot of time considering that there were only 300 pages. I also had some problems with the translation, but it has nothing to do with the story itself. The attitude of the secondary characters was also unpleasant. Although, I might admit that this kind of behaviour isn't as surprising in the modern world. There were also some moments that made me cringe, the reason bieng the same thing I specified first: This book got me unprepared... 
 Anyways... I liked the concept of it. It is a novel about the search for one's true self when one's body, as an external encasement, doesn't mirror what is on the inside. We are not talking here only about the gender uncertainty, but about other smaller incertitudes. It was beautifully written with lots of descriptions of the elegant life of two artists. I also enjoyed the fact that it was written from multiple prospective. The two main characters are successively sharing their point of view on the story. It is a really romantic book, up to the point of aching. I consider Greta a really strong character, because besides love you really need power to give up on you marriage in order to give to that person the happiness he needs, not just elsewhere but as a totally different person. The fact that this story is genuine also helps it a lot. 
 That being said, I am not sure that I would have bought this book if I had known what it was about. However, now, I do not regret reading it.