“Brilliant about bottomless loneliness … Håheim’s new novel is a powerful work of art … There is grief and longing here. But Duty is not sad through and through. The book contains humorous moments … a delicate and powerful novel about duty and work, longing and loneliness”
Dagbladet

“This is an ordinary story extraordinarily well told … Håheim’s prose is poetic, direct and persuasive, and so are all the scenes … Håheim conveys a story full of nostalgia, pride, shame and grief. She manages to show both the love and the sorrows in nostalgia, the pride and the coercion of duty, and not least the shame that many young people from the countryside feels when they don’t want to move back home”
Framtida

“Amid sheep and hay, a mind breaks down … a loneliness portrayed with sparse but effective means … even though Duty is quickly read, its core conflict lingers in your mind: how duty becomes coercive”
Klassekampen