And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
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  • Published: 1 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781405937832
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.99

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

From the New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People

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1 Nov 2022
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27 Oct 2022
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27 Oct 2022
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A moving portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, from the internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove

Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that gets smaller every day. The square is both strange and familiar, full of their lives' odds and ends. Here they share jokes, discuss their love of mathematics and Grandpa recalls falling in love with his wife, and how he dreads the day when he won't remember her. Sometimes Grandpa sits on the bench next to Ted, Noah's father, who prefers writing and playing guitar. They're very different, but bonded by their love of Noah.

Grandpa, Grandma, Ted, and Noah all meet in this space that is growing increasingly dimmer and more confusing. And here is where they will learn to say goodbye.
  • Published: 1 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781405937832
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman is a Swedish blogger, columnist and author. He is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, and top ten bestsellers My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises and Britt-Marie Was Here, as well as a novella, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer. His books are published in more than thirty-five countries and he has sold over seven million copies. The Scandal - published as Beartown in the US - is being adapted for TV by the team behind The Bridge. Fredrik lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.

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Anxious People
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Praise for And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

Winsome, bittersweet ... Wise and heartbreaking. Backman's slim novella celebrates the joy of connecting even in the midst of letting go

People Magazine

A novella to be savoured and reread about a boy, his dad and his grandpa as they learn to say goodbye. It's a little book with a big message

San Francisco Chronicle

I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know

Lisa Genova, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Still Alice</i>

Beautiful, dreamlike, heartbreaking, and heartwarming. Bring tissues. Bring all the tissues

RealSimple.com

The saddest, sweetest book ever ... It is heartbreakingly sad, but also beautiful and uplifting in the end

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