
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 & StoughtonEditor reviews
Heartwarming
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No S**t Sherlock. A fairy tale with a difference.
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Lovely!
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Very unique, but funny and sweet
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A touching story
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Poignant and Moving
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A lovely wacky story
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Great for the mother, daughter or grandmother in all of us
This is well written and fun
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lovley story
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I'm still a little undecided about this audio book. On the whole I enjoyed it but found some aspects very frustrating. Elsa, at almost 8, is more mature and has more self awareness than most 60 year olds. The fairy tales were fun but got a bit tiresome. However, on the whole, if you suspend reality, it was a fun book and worth a listenEnjoyable
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