fredrik backman my grandmother sends her regards and apologises

It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different. Told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as. I'll be ready for it the next few times I read it though and, indeed, the times after that.

However a special warning to the ladies summed up in three words: wear waterproof mascara! I read the last few chapters verging between heart-glowing smiles and heart-wrenching sobs.

(It's already a best seller in his native country.) Fredrik conveys much in a few words. The author's lightness of touch is definitely a contributor towards the novel's success. A touching, sometimes funny, often wise portrait of grief. There are clear themes here, nominally: the importance of stories the honesty of children and the obtuseness of most adults, putting him firmly in league with the likes of Roald Dahl and Neil Gaiman. And, in the process, Elsa can have some breath-taking adventures of her own. Because, as Elsa is starting to learn, heroes and villains don't always exist in imaginary kingdoms they could live just down the hallway.As Christmas draws near, even the best superhero grandmothers may have one or two things they'd like to apologise for. And granny's stories, of knights and princesses and dragons and castles, are her superpower. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them.But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally?Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown?Seven-year-old Elsa does.Some might call Elsa's granny 'eccentric', or even 'crazy'. Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, BernadetteHeartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, by the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother.

Fredrik backman my grandmother sends her regards and apologises