Fixed Ideas is the story of Espen and Emilie. He is a literary critic for a weekly paper, she is a young, promising culture journalist at the same place. They sleep with each other after a work party. From there, we follow the two of them and hear the relationship between Espen and Emilie told from two completely different viewpoints. In intense, stylistically assured language and through a distinctive use of shifting perspectives, the novel explores the self-examination of the social game.
Fixed Ideas is a restless and effective story of desire, gender and longing, and about the fundamental loneliness and constant, gnawing self-awareness which threatens our ability to meet one another as we really are.