
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
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Narrated by:
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Joan Walker
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By:
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Fredrik Backman
About this listen
The hilarious, heartbreaking novel by the author of the international best seller A Man Called Ove.
Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep, to get her to practise Granny's secret language, and a little because Granny is just about as nutty as a granny should be. But lately the stories have another dimension as well. Something Elsa can't quite put her finger on....
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is 77 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 fairy tales 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 best-selling 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.
©2015 Fredrik Backman (P)2015 Hodder & StoughtonEditorial reviews
Superb book
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Fredrick Backman
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Highly recommend this.
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Delightful book
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What a book!
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The Land of Almost Awake! Life and Death, Loss, Grief, Fogiveness
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loved this book, it's so playful and realistic
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This had all the highs of a Backman novel, but the 7 YO narrative voice didn’t work as well as his older protagonists. She was likeable, and I enjoyed the journey, but some of the conversations/engagements the adult characters had with her, we’re outside the realm of belief for me personally.
But, still a fun read and an excellent oration.
Another great book from a wonderful author
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Beautiful!
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Beautiful.
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