“Nobody can portray fragile family relationships ilke her. Oh, yes, there’s plenty of heartbreak here. And past and future is elegantly tied together in this final book of the fairy tale that started with Berlin Poplars in 2004. Again Anne B. Ragde shows that she is the queen of details … The cast of characters has charm, as always in Ragde’s books, and she shows again that she has done a lot of research. She describes social circles and family relationships like nobody else … and then the smart novelist Anne B. Ragde smuggles in foreshadowings into her warm portrait of this fictitious family’s many peculiar characters, whether they’re from Denmark or from around Byneset – such as the gorgeous portrait of grandfather Tormod … The Neshov saga has come to a conclusion. It’s beautifully tied together. Thank you for taking us on this voyage.”
5/6 stars, VG

“Anne B. Ragde has finally reached the end, when this beautiful finale to the Berlin Poplars series … Now Ragde has mustered all her powers to write a sixth and final novel of her series. It’s a pure pleasure to read, and Ragde shows how professional she is as a storyteller. Particularly in the beautiful, elegant ending … Even better: Ragde has written an ending where she both surprises and delights us with smart dramaturgy. It means that she in a both dignified and miraculous way succeeds in wrapping up this beloved series after so many years. Bravo, Ragde!”
5/6 stars, Dagbladet

“Anne B. Ragde’s prose is excellent and pulsating, often humorous … Ragde entertains her reader, sometimes with great charm, and the reader is pulled along towards the end, professionally and with great prose … The book’s linchpin is, as always, Ragde’s prose, her empathy and insight into normal lives and sometimes humorous approach to problems – the relationship between mother and daughter might be the best example”
NRK

“The six books of the Neshov saga has become widely loved . not least The Berlin Poplars – but The Daughter can without difficulties be read independently fro the others … Anne B. Ragde is a good storyteller, and there’s little doubt that she writes well. Her grasp of dialogue is especially good. She is laidback and keeps a realistic and charming flow in the interplay between the novel’s characters … Ragde is particularly good when she writes about Torunn’s falling in love for the first time in years: There’s a nerve in the interchanges between the newly in love – both of whom have rounded 40 – which comes across as both believable and bittersweet. Ragde also has a solid portion of humour … and then something happens in the novel’s final act that turns things around, and makes the pieces fall into place … Episodes that haven’t touched me as much throughout the novel can through the final chapters be looked at from a completely different place. It’s as if Ragde deliberately has kept a steady tempo throughout the novel, in order for the ending to really shake us up. It’s beautiful and moving”
Vårt Land

“The final book – The Daughter – is also one of the best of Anne B. Ragde’s series of life at and around the Neshov farm … In The Daughter, Ragde is at her best. And Ragde at her best is really good. We’re talking laughter and tears, sense and sensibility, great flow and equally good prose … wonderfully jousted by Anne B. Ragde. How complex they often are, these presumably closest relationships. And love too. But even so, it can all turn out well in the end. I cried several times in the novel. Laughed too. With compassion, and moved joy. The Daughter is quite simply a touching novel.”
Dagsavisen