- Published: 3 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781409029762
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 208
It's Fine By Me
- Published: 3 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781409029762
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 208
· 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