Dorthe Nors is fantastic!

- Junot Díaz,

Set in Copenhagen and the Danish countryside, the events described in Mirror, Shoulder, Signal could occur in any metropolitan American city and any rural US backwater. Deceptively simple, this book addresses longing and its futility, estrangement and displacement, with a casual ease. Nors' writing creeps up on you, and then overwhelms with its emotional power. She is a master

Chris Kraus, author of 'I Love Dick'

Absolutely loved this book - highly recommend!

Fiona Melrose, author of 'Midwinter'

Witty and insightful depth... Nors writes important modern women's fiction... she gives back agency and centrality to older women

Financial Times

A smart, funny and clever satire

Emerald Street

In this short novel Nors manages to condense the essence of life

Spectator

Benevolent ingenuity of Nors's writing... excellent situational tragicomedy... Nors's reinvention of experimental fiction is marvellous

Guardian

A magnificent exploration of anxiety... Ms Nors's novel delivers a bracing antidote to the cult of hygge

Economist

This is a book for anyone, from Stockholm to Shanghai, who finds themselves living in a city, feeling unaccountably anxious, with "restless legs poised for flight"

TLS

Forty-something Sonja takes control by learning to drive - with hilarious consequences

Vogue

An unflinching eye makes the new queen of Danish literature stand out... very moving... Nors' watchful eye... the tenderness of her writing

Big Issue

Nors at her most unassuming and ambitious... Nors can't help but handle words in interesting ways and put them to original uses... a harsh wit that recalls early Lorrie Moore. If her subject is unwavering, her style remains restless, less out of a desire to be "experimental" than out of playfulness and a genuine yearning, one feels, for contact and connection... Beneath the cool minimalism roils maximalist outrage - the horror of being captive to not only your body but to society

New York Times

Nors' novel is as lyrically stimulating as it is illustrative of Danish culture

Cutlure Trip

Sonja is an unassuming, fascinating character, whose quiet journey through learning to drive manages to illuminate the angst of her very existence... Sonja's little victories feel monumental, in the way your own little victory might. It's because Dorthe Nors has created a woman merely doing what we all are - trying to figure out how to live

Buzzfeed

Ferociously talented . . . an insightful and compassionate novel

Sunday Herald

This wryly funny, quirky novel is an addictive page-turner... fresh, heartfelt and candid

The Lady

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal offers a spiritually Scandi perspective on life

CUB Magazine

A quick and offbeat read. It might just remind you of situations you've allowed to control you, and inspire you to find a way out

Bookbag

The ending... is perfect: hopeful without sentimentality, allowing for love but not equating love with magic. And the love comes from a most unexpected place, one that made me smile with surprised delight

Elle Thinks (blog)

Sharp, very funny... deftly combining wit with acute observation

A Life in Books (blog)

Dorthe Nors' novel is wonderful to read on different levels

Miss Mesmerized (blog)

In flowing and absorbing prose, Nors illustrates how this anxious, alienated woman experiences setbacks and triumphs, proportionate to her carefully enclosed life, and how it might be possible for anyone to overcome immense loneliness and make a connection

New Yorker

Dorthe Nors is a writer of moments-quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation, at times dyspeptic, but never unsympathetic

Paris Review 'What We're Loving'

Astute and contemplative... Nors conjures a gently fraught reality in prose that evokes a life paused halfway between nostalgia for the past and hope for the future

Publishers Weekly

Agile and profound... the novel's power builds as Sonja's inner world unfolds

The Atlantic