Backman, F: My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises

@2@A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's @20@@18@The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry@19@ @21@and Maria Semple's @20@@18@Where'd You Go, Bernadette@19@@21@@3@@2@Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon @18@@20@A Man Called Ove@21@@19@ will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. @3@@2@Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them.@3@@2@But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally?@16@Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown?@3@@2@Seven-year-old Elsa does.@3@@2@Some might call Elsa's granny 'eccentric', or even 'crazy'. Elsa calls her a superhero. And granny's stories, of knights and princesses and dragons and castles, are her superpower. Because, as Elsa is starting to learn, heroes and villains don't always exist in imaginary kingdoms; they could live just down the hallway.@3@@2@As Christmas draws near, even the best superhero grandmothers may have one or two things they'd like to apologise for. And, in the process, Elsa can have some breath-taking adventures of her own . . .@3@