A Man Called Ove

The life-affirming bestseller that will brighten your day
The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman`s 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 Joyce`s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Graeme Simsion`s The Rosie Project and David Nicholl`s 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 can`t reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d`etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents` Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. 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...