The million-copy bestselling phenomenon Fredrik Backmans heartwarming debut is a funny moving uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyces The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Graeme Simsions The Rosie Project and David Nicholls US. New York Times bestseller Warm funny and almost unbearably moving Daily Mail Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it Spectator Books of the Year At first sight Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who cant reverse a trailer properly joggers shop assistants who talk in code and the perpetrators of the vicious coup detat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. But isnt it rare these days to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be and a lifelong dedication to making it just so? In the end you will see there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible...
