“Book Descriptions: I Count My Steps is a new gripping and heartbreaking story by Anne Sofie Hammer. It is a story about being the child of an alcoholic seen through the loyal and loving gaze of 10-year-old Merle.
One evening, Merle's mother goes to a pub and does not come home again. Not the next day, nor the day after. Grandma is in Jutland, mom is having a bad period, and the Christmas holidays have just begun. So Merle decides to set out to find the father that no one will tell her about. She thinks she knows his name and maybe where he works. For Merle, it will be a journey into the unknown for a person she has never met - but who will hopefully help.
I count my steps is, like the author's award-winning We Are Seen, Pellerøv suitable for literature teaching at the middle school.” DRIVE