My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

By the same author who wrote the incredibly wonderful  A Man Called Ove, and just as incredibly wonderful.
Elsa is almost-eight. She has a halfie on the way thanks to her mother and her mother's new husband. Her father lives with his wife and her children and Elsa spends every other weekend with them. Her Granny is her best and only friend. At school she has learn to run, because it is how she avoids being beaten up by her schoolmates. And Elsa is different.

Most of all Elsa believes in fairytales and magic, Harry Potter is her gospel and her Granny has nicked some of Harry in the tales she spins for Elsa about the Land-Of-Almost-Awake because it is so good it needs nicking.

But then her Granny dies and sends Elsa on an adventure that brings Elsa danger but also friends, family, and forgiveness. Elsa learns so much and she also teachers those around her as well. My heart was broken and then mended along with Elsa's and this is a book that will stay with me forever.

"Because life is both complicated and simple. Which is why there are cookies."

(Finished August, 5, 2017)