'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail 'Rescued all those men wh
o constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it' Spectator Books of t
he 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 tr
ailer 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' Associa
tion. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets
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