![]() ![]() ![]() Where I thought A Man Called Ove was a unique and beautiful novel (which made me laugh and cry – sometimes even on the same page!), with My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises Backman has taken his unique Scandi humour and engaging writing style to a completely new level of amazing, creating a truly special and memorable read that is going to be hard to beat for my favourite book of the year (I am pretty sure this will be my Station Eleven of 2015 the one novel I cannot stop thinking about and recommending to EVERYONE from friends and family members to strangers on the train. I only discovered author Fredrik Backman a few months ago, but he has already taken a firm spot in my list of absolute favourite authors. Her grandmother's letters lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and totally ordinary old crones-but also to the truth about fairytales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other. So when Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has hurt, it marks the beginning of Elsa's greatest adventure. There, everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. At night Elsa runs to her grandmother's stories, to the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. Standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy. ![]() My edition: Hardback, published on 4 June 2015 by Sceptre Books, 320 pages.ĭescription: Elsa is seven years old and different. ![]()
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