The Quiet Girl

In Høeg's hallucinatory prose, Copenhagen has a sinister near-future feel... there are also passages of lyrical beauty

Financial Times

Hoeg is an able storyteller ... he writes entertainingly, at times lyrically, at times scathingly. The text is full of "little golden eggs" as Kasper puts it

Scotland on Sunday

Nadia Christensen has created an amazingly faithful, readable version of Hoeg's Danish, idiomatic, allusive and crowded with philosophical, aesthetic and scientific memorabilia... all is illuminated by the author's passionate interest, his flashes of sparkling wit, and his skill in tying up all the loose ends of the wildly eccentric plot

Independent

If you're wanting intellectual liveliness and originality (and lots of Bach), look no further

Literary Review

The Quiet Girl has Hoeg's best-selling hallmarks - including an off-kilter hero in the shape of Kasper Krone, a world-famous clown with a penchant for poker and mysticism

Daily Mail

Peter Hoeg has created a novel filled with spirituality and music...never fails to surprise and enchant

Aesthetica Magazine

Superb new novel...At once intricate and explosive, The Quiet Girl is elegantly written and furiously plotted, resonant (though not acoustically) of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy and also David Mamet's elaborately staged deceptions

Independent on Sunday

Striking and deeply felt... confirms that Høeg is a writer determined to make new footprints in the snow

Mark Lawson, Guardian

He writes entertainingly, at times lyrically, at times scathingly

Scotland on Sunday