Hard Copy

Critics Review

• Despite its whimsical premise, Hard Copy is at its heart a joyful, tender, and strangely relatable novel. With sharp, playful prose Veldman tells a story in equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant.

  Jenny Mustard, author of Okay Days

• This novel has it all. It’s smart, captivating, poignant, absurd, moving, and terribly funny.

  Jente Posthuma, author of What I'd Rather Not Think About

• Intimate and surprising at every turn, Hard Copy‘s distinct narrative voice took me right in from page one. A truly one-of-a-kind novel: I loved it.

  Sarah Maria Griffin, author of Other Words for Smoke

• Rounded with sharp observations and surprising humour, Hard Copy is an incisive commentary on social isolation – a young woman’s desperate search for connection in these late-capitalist times.

  Anindita Ghose, author of The Illuminated

• Dryly comic... You regularly wonder who is more disturbed here, the protagonist or society.

  Het Parool

• A weird, understated and very well written book about a millennial meltdown

  Havermelkelite

• A beautiful, at times absurdist and moving debut

  Boekblad

• In clear, bright language, Fien Veldman accurately depicts a world, a social background, that eats its way through the individual… A novel like an autopsy.

  Manon Uphoff

• Absurdist and inventive. Fien Veldman knows how to deal with contemporary cultural phenomena, and she always approaches them astutely and surprisingly‘

  Tzum

• Wondrous

  Noordhollands Dagblad

• A beautiful book

  Friesch Dagblad