A Man Called Ove

Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - joggers, neighbours who can`t reverse a trailer properly and shop assistants who talk in code. 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 . . . `Hilarious and heart-breaking` Stylist `Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it` Spectator Books of the Year