“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 Lungeflyteprøven and Lorden—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