PositiveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Repetition is the sixth of Hjorth’s novels to appear in English (all luminously translated by Charlotte Barslund), and there are certain thematic repetitions that her readers have come to expect: Norway, darkness, trauma, cabins, filial discontent ... Hjorth is very good on the anxieties of girlhood and the threshold of maturity ... Wrenching.
Sarah Moss
PositiveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)This is not the first book written by or about a highly intelligent woman who has an unhealthy relationship with food, who copes with fear by taking it out on herself; a whole genre has arisen from such narratives, encompassing fiction and memoir. At times Sarah Moss seems to doubt herself ... Powerful.
Susannah Gibson
PositiveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Deft ... The bluestockings enabled change by showing that women could do more than embroider and nurse babies ... Useful.
