And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: From the New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People

"The Bench" is a tender and moving novella by Fredrik Backman that explores the bond between a grandfather, his grandson, and his grandson's father. The novella is about love, loss, and the importance of connecting even in the midst of letting go.

Format: Hardback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 27 October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

"The Square" is a tender and moving novella by the author of "A Man Called Ove" and "Anxious People." I read it in one sitting, utterly wowed, and wanted to share it with everyone I know. Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of "Still Alice," has crafted a beautifully imagined and moving story.

Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what it was like to fall in love with his wife, what it was like to lose her, and how she is as real to him now as the first day he met her. However, he dreads the day when he won't remember her.

Sometimes, Grandpa sits on the bench next to Ted, Noah's father, who never liked maths, prefers writing and playing guitar, and has waited his entire life for his father to have time for him, to accept him. But in their love of Noah, they have found a common bond. Grandpa, Ted, and Noah all meet here, in this peculiar space that is growing dimmer and more confusing all the time.

And here is where they will learn to say goodbye, the scent of hyacinths in the air, nothing to fear.

"The Square" is a winsome, bittersweet tale. It is wise and heartbreaking, celebrating the joy of connecting even in the midst of letting go. People Magazine praised it as "winsome, bittersweet . . . Wise and heartbreaking."

Weight: 270g
Dimension: 190 x 138 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781405937832