Alas, most women have lived this story. Though few will have told it so well. Compelling and keenly observant. -- Lionel Shriver, author of
We Need to Talk About KevinLove, famously, is blind. People in love can lose even the most basic critical faculties and become capable of monumental self-deception. Hardly a new story, but I don't think I've ever seen this particular myopia as astutely and entertainingly explored as in this stunning novel . . . bruise-tender in its detail and emotional candour.
This is a slim volume, but every word packs a punch; every other sentence is so wise and funny that it begs to be quoted. Andersson's gift for conjuring atmosphere and emotion out of small quotidian mishaps is extraordinary'
-- Julie Myerson * Guardian *
Lena Andersson's
Wilful Disregard is a story of the heart written with bracing intellectual rigor. It is a stunner, pure and simple. -- Alice Sebold, author of THE LOVELY BONES
Dry wit and sharp insight . . . If she sees an intellectual pretension, she pricks it * The Economist *
A compelling read, a deeply philosophical book that attempts to make sense of love in the modern world * Irish Examiner *
Brilliant and unflinching on obsession, on desperation, on the stuff of how people are capable of being to each other. Andersson writes smart, sharp-eyed, and often witheringly funny prose; nobody gets out of this situation with their pride, or their public persona, intact. Which is what makes it such addictive reading. -- Belinda McKeon, author of SOLACE and TENDER
A creepy lucid dissection of the tangled psychology of love. * M Magazine *
Lean and compulsively readable . . . Andersson's sketching of the lovesick Ester and the preoccupied Hugo is so well done that every incensed text she sends him is another little piece of our collective heart as we follow a struggle that has existed for as long as human life: the lover and the loved. * Kirkus *
