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My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

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by Fredrik Backman
Paperback
Publication Date: 09/06/2015
5/5 Rating 6 Reviews

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The hilarious, heart-breaking new novel by the author of the international bestseller A MAN CALLED OVE.

Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy. Standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa runs to her grandmother's stories, to the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas. There, everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.

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. 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.

My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman's bestselling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.

ISBN:
9781444775846
9781444775846
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09-06-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
217x135x27mm
Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman is a Swedish blogger, columnist and author. He is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, and top ten bestsellers My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises and Britt-Marie Was Here, as well as a novella, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer.

His books are published in more than thirty-five countries and he has sold over seven million copies. The Scandal - published as Beartown in the US - is being adapted for TV by the team behind The Bridge. Fredrik lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.

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This novel creeps up on you a bit. It seems to be going all over the place then WHAM! all the pieces start to lock into place. I think it might be the best book I have ever read. I ma lining up to read Britt Maree Was here. I have to see what happens next.

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I wasn’t sure if Fredrik Backman’s second novel would live up to his first, but I think it came pretty close. The start was a little slow and overall this one contained a little less humour and a little more heartbreak, but when the story came together it was wonderful. Judging by the title, I expected Backman to have written another book about an old person, but the story centres very much around seven-year-old Elsa, which was an interesting contrast. Unfortunately I really think Backman needs to lose the epilogue. I hate how he feels the need to add unnecessary information about characters after the story has finished. Some things should be left to the reader’s imagination. Other than that, ‘My Grandmother sends her Regards and apologises’ was a beautiful novel about healing and forgiveness that I would highly recommend, especially if you enjoyed ‘A Man called Ove’.

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I absolutely loved this novel. It took me a while to get into it at first but once it did I was sucked into the story and found it to be such a beautiful and well-crafted mash-up of adult fiction with children’s fairy tales.
It’s a story about an adult world that is seen through the eyes of an almost eight year old, but told through stories of fairy tales.

The connections between the stories and real life events slowly unfold and the “treasure hunt” that Elsa’s Granny has sent her on is a real eye opener for the little girl. She comes to understand real life disasters and heartaches through the stories her Granny told her, which makes it easier for her to relate to them better. In a way, her Granny prepared her for the real world – and a world that was right under her nose all along.

It’s a heartstring puller, a tear jerker, a laugher, an exciting trip into the fantastical world of “The-Land-of-Almost-Awake.” The characters were fabulous, the theme was brilliant and the theatrical writing was quite fun to read. I could just imagine Little Elsa reading the story out as she went along. It was very imaginative and very subtle with its connections until three quarters of the way through and then it just flew by. I could NOT put it down for the life of me and that meant a very late night at the end of the book!!!

It’s a type of story (like Backman’s first novel “A Man Called Ove”) that makes you think about things – about not judging a book by its cover and yet try to understand it/them. Things could be happening in a person’s life, or have happened in a person’s life that have created the people they are today. It’s a lesson for everyone to learn about acceptance of all things different. So don’t only look once at a person and think you know everything about them just because they dress funny, act silly, have a completely different opinion to you, look twice, three times or more – get to know them or just don’t judge them and accept that they are who they are. That’s what Elsa learns in this book. She learns that the people in her building are just people with a past and that they shouldn’t be hated, mistrustful or judged. Instead the “mission” leads her on a path of understanding and accepting.

Another fantastic novel from Fredrik Backman!!! You have won over this fan once again!

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