‘Love, 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 . . . 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

‘Dry wit and sharp insight . . . If she sees an intellectual pretension, she pricks it’

The Economist

‘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 Tender

‘Wilful Disregard is cruel but also cruelly funny, a crystal clear statement of hope and its desire and the soul’s incurable loneliness’

Svenska Dagbladet

‘A brilliant, razor-sharp novel about love’

Aftonbladet

‘A creepy, lucid dissection of the tangled psychology of love’

M Magazine