My Grandmother Sends Her Regards & Apologises

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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 apologising 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 fairytales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.

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FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A MAN CALLED OVE, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS

Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, this novel will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother.

‘A touching, sometimes funny, often wise portrait of grief’ Kirkus

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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Weight 0.26 kg
Dimensions 19.4 × 12.6 × 2.6 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

342

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

839.738 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K