As we alternate between the couple's perspectives the cumulative effect of their journeys becomes quietly affecting

Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

I was riveted by this propulsive, calmly devastating portrayal of a couple's separation and the lives that continue beyond it. Setterwall's prose is never didactic, and yet she is in full command of her reader's ambivalence towards both her protagonists and the small but shattering betrayals they endure: by each other, by their bodies and by themselves

MARINA KEMP, author of The Unwilding

Carolina Setterwall doesn't shy away from darkness. Opt Out is a daring book, brave not least because it has the courage to point out the consequences of a divorce for the woman

Expressen

In Opt Out, the gaze is as relentlessly direct, heart-rending, and searching as in the debut . . . As an observant guide through the human psyche and relationships, Setterwall is astonishing

Västerbottenskuriren

Stylistically pure prose . . . Setterwall doesn't move a centimetre away from the dry and factual, and leaves it up to the reader to fill in the emotions . . . Incredibly skillfully written

Barometern