...an urgent, lucid, courageous account.

...an unflinching look at both [Greta's] family cosmos and the civilisation that it is embedded within.

It's...like a new form of nonfiction, intimate and approachable as a photo album: a family memoir.

It makes for a fascinating, if slightly chaotic read, jumping between chapters on Malena’s career as an opera singer, Greta and Beata’s problems, and the climatic havoc humanity is wreaking on the planet. At times, it feels like there is more than one book here. I was not especially interested in Greta’s mother’s mission to 'take high culture down a notch'; I wanted to understand what drives the teenager who finally got the world to talk about climate change.

While Greta’s international fame will undoubtedly secure a wide audience for the book, it is hard to see what it offers its readers. Those avid for personal gossip about the Thunberg/Ernman family will find little to satisfy their curiosity.

...a more vulnerable and intimate portrait emerges in the telling of Thunberg’s origin story.

...this blazingly candid family memoir reveals the grueling and bewildering struggles that propelled Greta onto the world stage.