A patron brought this to my attention today! Love this title.
You can reserve a ccpy online at South Dublin Libraries’ catalogue here.
Blurb:
A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, by the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother.
Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother’s house.
Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them.
But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally?
Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown?
Seven-year-old Elsa does.
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.
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 . .
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I love this one! Although I had a grandmother whose official policy was ‘never apologise, it makes you look weak’!
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Heh! I’m always apologising, even if it isn’t my fault! She’s dead right!
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Can’t wait to get my hands on this book! I have high hopes from Fredrik Backman, especially after having read A man called Ove 🙂
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I haven’t read either, I must give one a go!
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