“Dizzying and feverish … a novel that sends shivers down your spine and tugs at your heartstrings … Renberg must be considered a worthy successor to the title of Stavanger’s greatest son, following in the footsteps of Alexander Kielland. Once again, he has written a powerful and deeply moving novel that takes the pulse of both the immediate present and the era a few decades before it… one of the most versatile authors of our time.”
****** 6/6 stars 
Joakim Tjøstheim, Dagbladet

“Book after book, Renberg outdoes himself… when he writes as he does now, and as he did in The Lung Float Test and The Lord—three brilliant novels in four years—then I too surrender without reservation, … it sparkles with lived and keenly observed life.”
****** 6/6 stars 
Fartein Horgar, Adresseavisen

“Thrillingly relatable—it’s what it’s like to be a teenager… Renberg has ironclad control, both over the narrative voice and the period atmosphere … [Renberg] turns this utterly ordinary—and utterly extraordinary—life into great literature.”
****** 6/6 stars 
Ellen Sofie Lauritzen, NRK

“Tore Renberg has written yet another excellent book, energetic and full of human insight and elegant phrasing… This is quite simply a book that’s hard to put down until the very last page has been read.”
***** 5/6 stars 
Jan Øyvind Helgesen, Nettavisen

“Good heavens, Tore Renberg! It’s been a while since I’ve encountered a fictional character with as much life in her as Agate Milde … The sentences live, breathe, and race along … Memories, curses, snippets of song, and markers of time are woven together with an elegance that many of his colleagues should envy him for”
***** 5/6 stars 
Gabriel Michael Vosgraff Moro, VG