A Man in Love

Packed with existential angst and fierce insights

Big Issue in the North

Punishingly honest record of the triumphs and banalities of his own life

Tim Martin, Telegraph

My favourite book of the year… He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating

William Leith, Spectator

A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

A brutally honest self-examination in what feels like real time

Justine Jordan, Guardian Online

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle is one of the most absorbing literary projects of recent times, one that has seen the Norwegian writer dubbed the Scandinavian Proust

Stephen Romei, Spectator

Required reading for new fathers

Richard Godwin, Evening Standard

This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive

Carys Davies, Metro

Knausgaard…is a master of capturing the mundane. By paying particular attention to the minutia which makes up a life, he awards it the respect it deserves… unputdownable

Wallpaper

Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking

Observer

My favourite book of the year… He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating

William Leith, Spectator

Shocking and compulsive

Dazed & Confused

A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive

Carys Davies, Metro