Description: Life in a grand Norwegian mountain hotel is not what it used to be. Sedd's grandparents are fighting a losing battle to maintain standards at Fåvnesheim hotel, whilst the young Sedd observes developments with a keen eye for the absurd and a growing sense of unease that all is not well.
Review Quotes:
Erik Fosnes Hansen has created a boyish narrative voice, at the same time heart-stoppingly naïve and strikingly adult. It captures precisely the indeterminate state between unconditional trust and dawning scepticism in which the adolescent Sedd is caught, whilst his life reaches crisis point and everything falls apart. Jyllands-Posten, November 2017
Lobsters, with their hard shells, soft insides and basic existential vulnerability, are a mirror image of human beings, at once armour-plated and exposed; yet this novel also conveys a basic belief that it pays to do your best and not complain. Berlingske, November 2017