"Kivland invites us to go on Holiday, with Freud: up mountains, we walk; through streets, along the lake. We pick mushrooms. We go on adventures. Sometimes, we lose our way home. We digress. Interweaving meticulous historical research, Kivland's own retracing of Freud's steps and her personal memories, this is a creative reimagining not just of Freud on Holiday, but of the nature of biography itself. Poignant, evocative, passionate - this is a dream of a book." (Steve Pile, The Open University, UK)
"The relaxed tone of the Freud on Holiday series smuggles in an unsuspected intensity that is difficult to get at without losing one's cool, overdoing it or otherwise dropping the pretence of reception, recognition, assimilation [...] I'm talking about the desire these books prompt in me for an experience of departure, perhaps one of those "little precipitates of language" that happened to Derrida when he was on the move." (Sarah Wood, Oxford Literary Review)