Happy Days of the Grump

The feel-good bestseller perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove

Tuomas Kyrö

• Publisher: Manilla
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786580160
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

A funny, uplifting and life-affirming tale of grumpiness perfect if you loved books like Eleanor Oliphont is Completely Fine,Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry or Ruth Hogan's The Keeper Of Lost Things

Maybe there's a little grump in all of us . . .

The Grump, at eighty years old, is more focused on death than life; building his own coffin and keen to write his will in ink - who can trust technology, after all? - he knows that everything was much better in the old days.

But when the Grump finds himself in hospital after falling down his basement steps, his life passes before his eyes. Thinking of the people closest to him and reflecting on the changes to the world, he starts to see the things a little differently. But can an old Grump learn new love?

With warm humour and a loving look at family and relationships, The Happy Days of the Grump is sure to bring a smile to even the grumpiest faces.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Like an oak
• Bring the horses in!
• One.way.or.another.
• Khomeini or Kekkonen?
• An archive for beam-carvers?
• I don’t dance, I don’t sing, I don’t party
• My favourite subject was handicrafts
• Is the Escort here?
• Life is short, bar bills long
• Live and let liver
• Like a bed of roses
• Eskimo turn
• And soon they’re thirty
• Are there potatoes in heaven?
• Grandpa’s porpoise
• My health, my youth
• News deficit
• Always put your helmet on
• Sofa and stool
• Judas
• Katri Helena
• P.S.
• In the attic room, 17.4.1954
• 7.11.1968
• 2009 or whatever year it is now
• I have relaxed a little
• Meet the Grump
• More from Manilla
• Readers First
• Copyright