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Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Winner of the Swedish Book of the Year

The most moving book I ve ever read heart-breaking but also heart-warming. Jacqueline Wilson

'The kind of book you give to someone when you re really trying to say I ve been thinking about you but don t know how.' Fredrik Backman, bestselling author of A Man Called Ove

'A novel anyone will take to heart...a simple yet effective meditation on mortality, love and care' Patrick Gale, Guardian

'One of those you ll laugh, you ll cry, you ll want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love books New Yorker
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Bo is determined to live his own life in his own way. But his son has other ideas...

Bo lives a quiet existence in his small rural village in the north of Sweden. He is elderly and his days are punctuated by visits from his care team and his son.

Fortunately, he still has his rich memories, phone calls with his best friend Ture, and his beloved dog Sixten for company.

Only now his son is insisting the dog must be taken away. The very same son that Bo is wanting to mend his relationship with before his time is up. The threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind of emotions and makes Bo determined to resist and find his voice.

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