´Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it´ Spectator Books of the Year At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can´t reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d´etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents´ Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. 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? In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible...