My Friends (UK Edition)

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST FICTION 2025 • SHORTLISTED FOR AMAZON'S BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2025 • AN AUDIBLE BEST LISTEN OF 2025 • A BARNES AND NOBLE NATIONAL BOOK CLUB PICK

Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life years later.

You have to take life for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.

******************

In the corner of a world-famous painting, three tiny figures sit on the end of a pier, a secret hidden in plain sight. 

Twenty-five years ago, a group of teenagers found solace in each other during one unforgettable summer. Their friendship inspired a transcendent work of art, a painting that now mysteriously belongs to eighteen-year-old aspiring artist Louisa.

Driven to learn the story behind its creation, Louisa embarks on a journey to the seaside town where it all began. But as she gets closer to the painting’s birthplace, Louisa learns that happy endings do not always take the form we expect.

***************

Fredrik Backman (Author)

Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, The Winners, Anxious People, My Friends, and two novellas, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime, as well as one work of nonfiction, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 2.64 x 19.8 cm