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Details: condition: brand new format: paperback isbn: 9781444775853 publisher: sceptre age range: adult 16 overview a warm, funny and deeply moving novel from the sunday times bestselling author of a man called ove. When seven-year-old elsa's eccentric granny dies, she leaves behind a trail of letters apologising to people she has wronged throughout her life. As elsa sets out to deliver them, she uncovers the truth behind granny's fantastical bedtime stories and discovers a family, a community, and a love she never knew existed
A story that celebrates imagination, grief and the ties that quietly bind us. About the book elsa is seven years old and different, and her best
And only
Friend is her grandmother, who fills her nights with fairy tales unlike any others: wild, sweeping stories of the land-of-almost-awake and the kingdom of miamas, populated by knights, princesses and monsters, all designed to explain granny's own strange and troubled past. When granny dies, she leaves behind a series of letters apologising to people she has wronged over the years, and asks elsa to deliver them one by one. As elsa sets off around her grandmother's apartment block armed only with these letters, she meets the wurse, the monster, the woman who dresses in black, and a cast of neighbours who prove to be far more layered than their nicknames suggest. Piece by piece, elsa realises that every fairy tale granny ever told her was rooted in truth, and that granny's real legacy is...
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