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 movingly observed story about growing up

The 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

A brilliantly vivid piece of storytelling

The Scotsman

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

Observer

Melancholic

Emma Hagestadt, Independent

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

James Urquhart, Financial Times

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

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