Children’s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, uncomfortable engagements with strangers who have young children, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard’s compelling and honest account of family life. The narrative made by the author is very clenched, written almost in a self-confession mode. However, it is the words and his realizations of being a responsible father that makes this short and fun book relatable and engaging. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the boring struggles of domesticity, this is one father’s personal experience, and somehow, every father’s too. How to be a good father? This book says it all.