Art, memory and the shelter of friendship
Backman works in a broader emotional register here, turning a famous painting and a vanished summer into a meditation on survival, loyalty and being seen. The novel feels expansive but intimate, funny in flashes and deeply attuned to the marks friendship leaves long after youth has ended.
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Art, memory and the shelter of friendship
Backman works in a broader emotional register here, turning a famous painting and a vanished summer into a meditation on survival, loyalty and being seen. The novel feels expansive but intimate, funny in flashes and deeply attuned to the marks friendship leaves long after youth has ended.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Love emotional literary fiction built around art and memory
- Enjoy found-family stories shaped by adolescence and long aftermaths
- Are drawn to seaside settings, road journeys and layered timelines
- Want a moving novel with warmth as well as sorrow
My Friends begins with a painting and the tiny, nearly unnoticed figures on an abandoned pier that only Louisa seems to understand. Fredrik Backman then folds the story backwards into a summer in a seaside town, where four teenagers create a bond strong enough to outlast the hardest parts of their lives.
The novel balances tenderness, humour and grief with real assurance. Readers who respond to stories about art, inheritance and the ways friendship can remake a future will find this especially rewarding.
- About The Author
- Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, Anxious People, The Winners, and My Friends, as well as two novellas and one work of nonfiction. His books are published in more than forty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook and X @BackmanLand and on Instagram @Backmansk.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781398516434
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., (22 January 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 436
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 20 mm
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