“Raw, brutal, and pitch-black sarcastic.”
GÖTEBORGS-POSTEN

“What a depth-psychological and immensely wickedly funny chamber play; sarcastic, razor-sharp, revealing, and so cleverly told.”
WELT AM SONNTAG

“I would love to sit in a book club with women of all ages and discuss this toxic death dance of a novel.”
SVENSKA DAGBLADET

“Mother-in-laws can ruin lives, and books can change reality. Both become clear after reading Johanna Frid's razor-sharp novel Harald's Mother.”
POLITIKEN

“An anxious love story about longing for a child and longing for a mother. Starring the evil mother-in-law, the orphaned girl. It hasn't been told like this before.”
Ulrika Milles, SVT NYHETER

“A bitter and infectiously funny generational conflict. She has a completely unique narrative voice that goes somewhat beyond what one expects. It is both dark and slightly absurd.”
Maria Årolilja Rø, ADRESSEAVISEN (5/6)

“An entertaining and sharply observed generational portrait.”
Hanne Kristin Wolden, KLASSEKAMPEN

“This sparkling, imaginative firework of a book.”
Nina Lekander, EXPRESSEN

“A very black comedy that mercilessly dissects relationship patterns and behaviors of its generation. Magnificent, terrifying satire; a bottomlessly wicked book.”
KURIER

“Sarcastic, witty, merciless, fast, polyglot... Johanna Frid's novel is a masterful chamber play: the portrait of a dysfunctional family dynamic and a generational conflict.”
FILM, SOUND & MEDIA

“Brash and sarcastic, Frid tells of a conflict that is both tragic and comic.”
HÖRZU

“A slender, cuttingly honest chamber play about power and care and the fine cracks that can run through families.”
KREUZER

“Johanna Frid tells of the conflict between two generations. Incredibly witty!”
PRESSE AM SONNTAG

“Johanna Frid builds a full-scale and sharp generational war. The collision of two systems of thought, between inquisition and existential doubt. This novel is a manic flare-up – full of pendulum movements, symmetries and borrowings from the Bible, Simone de Beauvoir and Inger Christensen.”
DAGENS NYHETER

“Harald's Mother is incredibly convincingly told and masters the difficult art of combining a well-crafted suspenseful plot with a vibrant literary quality. The characters are sharply portrayed in all their vulnerability and irritable, unsympathetic demeanor.”
KRISTELIGT DAGBLAD

“It's funny, it's ruthless.”
POV INTERNATIONAL

“Johanna Frid's characters are Stine Pilgaard on steroids.”
SOUNDVENUE

“I'm jealous of Frid and her female narrator's ability to spit out the untimely period in such a sharp, funny and sad way that the pages curl up in festive despair. Johanna Frid has a quality that I hold incredibly high: she is funny!!! Rough, brutal and night-black sarcastic. In Swedish contemporary prose, it is a rare flower.”
EXPRESSEN

“In the airport bar, a Strindbergian dance of death is fought between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. Harald's Mother has a sulphurous mood about it, and as a reader you are nailed to the pages.”
AFTONBLADET

“This is female totally revealed broken politeness. It's very, very funny!”
SWEDISH RADIO

“Johanna Frid writes cutting edge with a good portion of dark humor about one of the trickiest, close relationships that exists.”
VI LÄSER