It's Only Love
By Sverre Henmo
Jonathan has just started middle school. He lives with his mother and his bully of a brother, Trym. Jonathan’s best friend, Jesper, has long legs, a short body, a round belly and…
By Sverre Henmo
Jonathan has just started middle school. He lives with his mother and his bully of a brother, Trym. Jonathan’s best friend, Jesper, has long legs, a short body, a round belly and…
Jonathan has just started middle school. He lives with his mother and his bully of a brother, Trym. Jonathan’s best friend, Jesper, has long legs, a short body, a round belly and a master plan to get together with Sunniva – a plan that unfortunately involves Jonathan, as well as Sunniva’s friend, Liva.
So what do you do when you start dating the wrong girl just to be loyal to your best friend? When you actually are in love with Alina – the girl who is so pretty that she once starred in a commercial for handbags.
Sverre Henmo has an almost unsurpassed ability to be present, as well as a keen sense of detail and emotional transitions. Falling in love is not just an empty phrase in Henmo’s writing – it becomes something genuine. In It’s Only Love he writes beautifully, soberly and superbly about when friendship and love get in a clinch.
«Sverre Henmo is no rookie, and I think it is only a matter of time until he turns into a household name – in other words until he turns into someone that everybody has heard about and wants to read. This is very good literature. The story is realistic and the thoughts are very sharp. It is a delight to read Sverre Henmo.»Morten Olsen Haugen, NRK P2 Radio
«It’s Only Love is a realistic story about the complications of falling in love, with no exhausting comedy or dystopian drama … Being a teenager involves the act of finding your own voice and making your own choices. And this is what Sverre Henmo demonstrates to us: Love is no joking matter. And neither is friendship.»Anne Cathrine Straume, NRK
«Henmo writes about things that young people can relate to, and uses protagonists that both boys and girls can identify with. Nice to experience an author who still remembers how it was to be a teenager.»Vårt Land
«To portray teenage life the way it feels when you’re living it, and not how it looks in hindsight, is a great quality in a young adult novel. And that is exactly what Sverre Henmo does so well.»Barnebokkritikk.no
«A finely tuned and quiet novel... Each sentence is relevant, the methaphors are striking.» 5 out of 6 stars, bok.365
Foreign sales: Denmark, GyldendalSlovenia, Zalozba Zala
