My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - Fredrik Backman At the age of eighty-one

At the age of eighty-one

Translator: Christopher Moncrieff

exiled and eventually re-arrested

her comfortable world is shattered

A woman settles in a remote Polish village

My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - Fredrik Backman At the age of eighty-oneEveryone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them. But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally? Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown? Seven year old Elsa does. Some might call Elsa's granny 'eccentric', or even 'crazy'. Elsa calls her a superhero. And granny's stories, of