“An enigmatically beautiful novel.”

“This book is an investigation into expressing the unspeakable as precisely as possible.”

“An ultimate story about maternal love and loss that more than poignantly shows how hope prolongs torture.”

“Shockingly painful and beautifully described is Mia's condition, who will never be able to do what her peers can do.”

“In Days Like Strange Symptoms, you stay glued to the beautiful sentences and the voids between them.”

“A novel that hits you like an assassin, head and heart, fearlessly accurate.”

"An engaged writer, Leonieke Baerwaldt, and also original."

“The Little Mermaid fairy tale moved to the present. This debutant does it so original and smart that you are left slightly stunned. Those scars behind that mother's ear... are they gills? Hooray, the literary experiment is still alive. '

“Leonieke Baerwaldt weaves the enchanting visual language of a fairy tale with a raw story of loss, displacement, poverty and abuse.”

“Leonieke Baerwaldt returns to the gruesome aspect in our fairy tales in her extraordinary debut, “Here We Come From.” A happy ending gives way to social criticism.”

“It's really impressive. It is a mosaic story (...) and she succeeds with gusto. Keep an eye on that name. '

“The incongruity of life, seriously shaped. Great book, in the sense of being speechless, impressed. '

“Thanks to Baerwaldt's recycling of fables, myths, and fairy tales by Andersen and Grimm, we experience what binds us, humans.”

'(...) Leonieke Baerwaldt's wonderful yet poignant debut.'

“Baerwaldt has a solid, unemphatically visual style.”

“A wonderful and wonderful debut by Leonieke Baerwaldt, which amazes the reader from one to the next.”

“It's a hypnotic, melancholic story that Baerwaldt tells. Her words are poetic and each one is convincing. '

“Impressive debut novel.”

“Just as every fairy tale shows something of what people hope, suspect, desire or fear, “Here we come from” also moves into the deeper layers of our soul.”

“Leonieke Baerwaldt wins the BNG Literature Prize. Baerwaldt's novel “Days as Strange Symptoms” is the experimentally told and mythically charged story of a mother of a multiple handicapped child. According to the jury, it is an “intelligent, layered and moving novel”. '