I Know You are Going to be Happy: The Story of a Sixties Family

Funny, truthful, and in the end a very painful account of the devastation caused to a small boy by his father leaving the family… Reading Christiansen’s tender, insightful, clear-eyed account of it all is a remarkable experience. ― The Observer

The evocative portrayal of a single parent family in the Fifties reminds us that nothing in history seems so distant as the day before yesterday. ― Mail on Sunday

There is no self-pity in these pages; there is very little self at all, which results in the spare beauty of the prose. ― Telegraph

He writes elegant prose, and describes his subjects with an elegiac compassion. ― Literary Review

Dance and music critic Christiansen gives a moving, unsparing account of how promising careers in journalism and the good wishes of friends for their marriage turned sour for his mother and father. ― Saga Magazine