Home and Away

[It is] fascinating, insightful... Engrossing. -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times *
Home and Away is deeply intelligent, enjoyable and sometimes funny. -- Simon Kuper * Financial Times, Book of the Year *
An entirely engrossing exchange of ideas, affection and memory… [A] genuinely engaging two-hander of real affection and insight. -- Barney Ronay * Literary Review *
Knausgaard is a writer with an astonishing ability to elevate the prosaic… As a reading experience, Home and Away is diverting, indulgent and stealthily enjoyable. Just as it probably was to write. * Esquire, Book of the Year *
At its core, Home and Away is a story about two men doing what they can to keep a friendship afloat, even from continents away. * New Yorker *
For a book which, at heart, is no more than two friends chatting about football, there is a lot to like. * The Economist *
Their correspondence is, at times, very personal and the reader gets the impression that the two writers are connecting on a deeper level, able to express views and thoughts that they wouldn’t share with anyone else. It is this feeling that as a reader you are being welcomed into a lively conversation about politics, life and everything in between, which makes the book so enjoyable and engrossing. -- Chris Tilbury * Prospect *
The pair make lively correspondents. -- Max Liu * i *
It's fun and possibly a fruitful format for future tournaments. -- Giles Smith * The Times Books of the Year *
It is worth having a read of this…to be reminded again of the joy of sport and how it adds colour and passion and pleasure to modern life. -- Paul Rouse * Irish Examiner *