Story of a Girl tells the tale of a girl's maturing years and has been compared with such works as Jostein Garder's Sophie's World, Laxness' Salka Valka and The Swan by Gudbergur Bergsson. This story is about a seventeen-year old girl from Reykjavik, who is a more complex personality than she appears to be.

“Story of a Girl contains a lot of “here and now”; it is contemporary in a more explicit sense than most novels. It is derived straight from our own times, from today’s ideas and debate about gender. The violent, primeval force of Story of a Girl is rendered through the unconventional voice of the narrator and the way language shouts out at the reader, thus blurring the boundaries between real life and the text.”
- Hermann Stefansson, Morgunbladid Newspaper