“Marit Tusvik has done it again … [Tusvik] has the ability to make a story something more than just a series of events, something bigger and more than a well told narrative … It’s a sensuous, nervously sensitive novel, dreamy, at times verging on the hallucinatory … a thrilling read”
Jan Askelund, Stavanger Aftenblad, 5/6 stars

“This is more than a book about the art of cooking, even though the third person narrator’s insight into the nature of cooking is formidable and impressive – indeed, it’s almost as if the reading makes one’s stomach explodes with delight. But this perfectionism, this striving for the very best, the optimal – it can be transferred to other parts of life … Tusvik has written a novel which is free of cliches, with minimalistic traits, a story that doesn’t bring us from A to Z with full logical consistency … There aren’t many books written like this these days. Unfortunately.”
Jan-Erik Østlie, Fri Fagbevegelse

“Elba and the widow provide the book its uniqueness: The extravagant and fairy-tale-like, the mentally stirring, the mystical and the mythical, in addition to deep seriousness and sudden humour. It is related to her previous, intelligently imaginative books: the hybrid between the realistic and the wildly fantastical, the precise phrases”
Janneken Øverland, Klassekampen