As Elsa discovers more about her granny and how the people around her are all linked together, she manages to point out the absurdities in people’s thoughts and behaviours as well as each person’s “superhero” super power. The book is beautifully inventive, humorous, emotional, witty, sarcastic, dark, scary and occasionally downright funny.
That day, Elsa learned some of her very best swear words. She really was entertaining, Elsa should say in her defence. Granny let off fireworks inside a hamburger restaurant and accidentally set fire to a seventeen-year-old girl who was dressed up as a clown and apparently supposed to be providing ‘entertainment for the children’. Her granny behaves irresponsibly, but wonderfully, most of the time. One time last year they rearranged the shelves in the supermarket near to where Dad and Lisette live, and Else had to run those tests she had seen advertised on television, to make sure he hadn’t had a stroke.Įlsa’s disfunctional granny and Elsa have a strong influence on each other. The seven year old has thoughts and perceptive observations of the adults (and sometimes the children) she encounters as she tries to make sense of the world.ĭad likes to know what he’s getting. Her granny is her one friend and, it turns out, is very different herself. She is rather intelligent and is bullied at school.
The kind of person who goes around with a red pen correcting the grammar and spelling in shop signs. However, it didn’t take long before I became immersed in the rather special life of “nearly eight year old” Elsa.Įlsa is different. It didn’t seem the same as the author’s extraordinary first book A Man called Ove. I wasn’t too sure I’d enjoy this story after reading the first few pages.
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