Hafni says

'Like a multifaceted jewel, or a particularly glossy bead of salmon roe, Hafni says shifts and scintillates, in turns pensive, sad, humorous, wondrous, heartbreaking, but all of its moods carry the traces of the others, which is to say: the weight, the longing, the texture of a whole life. This is the saddest, strangest, realest road trip book I've ever read.'

-- Polly Barton, author of What Am I, A Deer?

'Conversational, acerbic, melancholy and also so full of everyday truths and observations that it is difficult to resist the urge to underline every phrase ... Hafni says is close to perfection.'

-- Catherine Taylor

'Compact, witty and episodic - written in short chapters that mix exquisite attention to detail with impressionistic interludes ...You read Hafni says like the smorrebrød it describes: in small delectable portions, nodding along to its observational precision, chewing over its subtle, layered flavours, wistfully yearning for more when it's all over.'

-- Matthew Janney

'Hafni Says is a radically experimental and completely unbridled book. It’s a novel about crisis and downfall, about the will to live, alienation, freedom, guilt and shame, and the heavy gaze of expectation. Simply put, it’s a novel about existence…Helle Helle has long proven that her authorship can’t be dismissed in a subordinate clause. Several of her novels already stand as masterpieces in Danish literature. Hafni Says is no exception.'

'Hafni’s story makes you both laugh and cry. Full of situational comedy and consummate humour keen to the quirks of language. Full of sorrow and anxiety, simultaneously conveyed and assuaged by Helle’s marvellous writing (…) I envy anyone who is about to read this novel.'