My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises: From the bestselling author of A MAN CALLED OVE

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I am just in awe of Fredrik Backman's incredible imaginative storytelling and the ability to completely pull the reader into his wondrous yet also highly realistic novels. The strength of Backman's narrative rests on his seamless switching between hilarity and sombreness, keeping the sensibilities of his characters away from dilution. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World, his first work of non-fiction, will be released in the US in May 2019. While I didn’t find Elsa quite as endearing a main character as darling old Ove, she still provided a humourous and poignant insight into what might otherwise have been a very dark story.

It taught me the importance of keeping the child in all of us alive, the snarky but honest child who is only sometimes a shit and tries their best to be not a shit.Wars and storms an pursuits and intrigues and stuff, because that was the sort of action stories that Granny liked. It was an early Christmas morning, I could smell the sugar cookie smell making its way through my house.

Having a grandmother is like having an army", says Elsa, and her late grandmother is quite amazing, leaving upon her death a treasure hunt made of fairy tales for Elsa. Her parents are divorced and her mother and new partner are expecting a baby but worst of all Elsa is having a rough time at school .

And one might be tempted to either skip the parts with the fairytale (which would prove tedious given how intertwined the fairytale parts are with the underlying real story) or give up reading the book altogether on the premise that for adults, the film (when it does come out) would be better tuned to keep adults engaged! While the characters are quirky and eccentric, the story has a slightly sinister undertone, because Elsa is afraid of ‘The monster’ which is more than just a part of her imagination and fairytales. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. What made the experience of listening to My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises the most enjoyable?