The Winter War - Tapa blanda

Shot through with understated black humour and nicely balanced between tender and acerbic, this impressive novel is a forceful reminder that there is much more to Scandinavian writing than crime fiction (Sunday Times)

Teir offers a sardonic yet sympathetic critique of a multi-generational family ... remarkable eye for human behaviour ... an intelligent debut (Telegraph)

cool yet compassionate...bitingly funny...engrossing (The Lady)

Written with unshowy care and thought...there's something Anglo-Americanly, unScandinavianly familiar about the way Teir tackles these domestic and emotional entanglements - only with weird Finnish names, very heavy snowfall and temperatures that reach -20 Celsius (Harry Ritchie Daily Mail)

funny, sharply observed and very readable (Press Association)

Somewhere between Richard Yates and John Updike, but with a Nordic temperament that is cooler ... Teir writes about an academic middle class family with a realism that is both ironically compassionate and warmly critical (Expressen)

Little short of brilliant ... The Winter War is firmly rooted in an Anglo-Saxon tradition, alongside writers such as Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst and Jeffrey Eugenides (Jönköpings-Posten)

This is set in Helsinki and concerns the author's own community of Finland-Swedes. It's more Scandi-gris than Scandi-noir - deceptively monochrome but enlivened with a humour as sour as pickled herring and often as delicious. This is an everyday tale of midlife crisis among spoilt, middle-class folk. Think Wallander with laughs. (Kate Saunders The Times)

A domestic drama with all the tension of a needling thriller (Shortlist)