Author: Backman, Fredrik Fiction & related itemsPublished on 7 May 2015 by HODDER & STOUGHTON (Sceptre) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 320 pages194 x 145 x 20 | 232g Now a major film starring Tom HanksThe million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail'Delightful . . . the perfect holiday read' Evening StandardOve is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - joggers, neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly and shop assistants who talk in code.But isn't 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 . . .'Hilarious and heart-breaking' Stylist'Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it' Spectator Books of the Year
