It's Fine By Me

· an intriguing story featuring all of the Petterson quirks — charm, melancholy, loneliness, the rifts between parents and children, the bonds between siblings and friends

Reading Matters

A brilliantly vivid piece of storytelling

The Scotsman

A movingly observed story about growing up

The Times

Atmospheric coming-of-age tale by one of Norway’s most renowned writers

Observer

Beautifully crafted but undeniably bleak; its spare prose, mournfully succinct characterisation and disorientating chronology deliver an edgy read

James Urquhart, Financial Times

Beautifully written and understatedly uplifting, It's Fine By Me is an essential read

Stylist

Beguiling and beautiful… a gripping and subtle coming-of-age story, ripe with melancholy… graceful and moving

Daily Telegraph

Executed with not only a magical attention to detail but also with heart-swelling affection... page after page of clear, glitchless and truthful writing

Financial Times

Melancholic

Emma Hagestadt, Independent

Petterson’s novel is a compelling study… Petterson’s beautifully spare prose subtly captures the effort that comes with this seeming inaction, this lack of fight, providing us with a lens through which we come to see Audun’s grim inertia as a paralyzing struggle to forget the past and get on with the task of living

Observer

The detail is perfect; the emotions are raw and beautifully conveyed

William Leith, Evening Standard