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The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a<\/span>\u00a0funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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‘Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving’\u00a0<\/span>Daily Mail<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Delightful . . . the perfect holiday read’<\/span>
\nEvening Standard<\/span><\/h4>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible . . .
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\n‘Hilarious and heart-breaking’<\/span>
\nStylist<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it’<\/span>
\nSpectator<\/span>\u00a0Books of the Year<\/span><\/p>\n

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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  • Paperback ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>320 pages<\/span><\/li>\n
  • ISBN-10 ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>9781444775815<\/span><\/li>\n
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  • Reading age ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>Customer suggested age: 16 years and up<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Item Weight ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>100 g<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Dimensions ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>12.6 x 3 x 19.6 cm<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[59],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1945","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books","first","instock","sale","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}