Delightful, at once informative and often humorously digressive . . . a humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, Sjoeberg writes with infectious passion.
Independent
By his own admission Sjoeberg has a butterfly mind ; the effect of his narrative excursions amounts to a sort of Sebald-lite, albeit without the fictional element. What insures this ... Read moreapproach against triviality is the author's patient alertness to pattern, to telling correspondence.
Nat Segnit
Times Literary Supplement
A joy . . . Fredrik Sjoeberg's best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he completes a trilogy.
Nature
Digressive, discursive and delightful.
Michael Kerr
Telegraph
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