Karen Strandbygaard has written a modern Gothic horror story about a family on a sunny sailing holiday in the Swedish archipelago. Seal Safari is a real surprise.

– Politiken, Denmark

The author has a good grasp of narrative contrasts. First, she lulls her reader into a sense of calm with the idyllic Swedish archipelago, then she strikes with satanic revelations of human folly. (…)
Hugh Grant should know that he is the model (for a lot) in Karen Strandbygaard’s successful satire on celebrity fever, embarrassment, and rejected herd animals. Curiosity, envy, and self-righteousness are exposed as threats to a normal code of conduct, and the novel shows how false notions about someone else’s expected egocentricity can cause ordinary people to collapse morally. It is about embarrassment, not just as a personal act, but as a disturbing cultural trait.
– Weekendavisen, Denmark

I don’t want to reveal the main plot of Karen Strandbygaard’s new novel. I’m afraid that, like me, you’ll think that it can’t be turned into a whole novel. It’s too small. What is the author thinking? But it can be turned into a whole novel, because Strandbygaard once again succeeds in making smoldering embers burst into flames and turn into a terrifying ending.
– Jyllands Posten, Denmark

Karen Strandbygaard works in the publishing industry and is the author of three well-received novels. Her latest coup is the novel Seal Safari, published by People’s in Denmark, a comedy of manners in a social media and celebrity crazy time.

A Danish family of four harbors their boat in a picturesque Swedish summer town, where an internationally famous movie star is vacationing with his family. Not sure if George Clooney or Hugh Grant would play the part but the movie star’s presence in the small harbour town stirs things up and leads to a number of cringe moments! The mayhem that follows includes many of the other summer visitors, but the main spark ignites inside our main character, the mother and wife of the family.