The Last Signs of Love

In a focussed and courageous way, Kjersti Anfinnsen lets the drama quietly play out through a life encrusted in dust and crumbs. [...] The novel shows us that the road from resignation to indignation can be a short one, if only we appreciate that we may be about to lose something we love.

The Last Signs of Love alternates between the bittersweet portrayal of what will develop into a warm, cautious and difficult relationship with a man, and an infinity of perfidious exchanges between [Birgitte] and her sister in Norway. The latter do not come to an end until nature demands it. And otherwise, ‘it will be what it will be’, since now ‘it is what it is’. Kjersti Anfinnsen puts it tenderly and abruptly for her, in an impressive novel – at least for all readers on life’s home stretch. ‘Then that’s settled, then.’

It’s a thought-provoking little gem of a novel. [...] The author writes very well and it flows easily. She also shows a great ability to get into the mind-set of the aging. [...] Recommended!

A little gem of a book.