My Friends (Signed first UK edition, first impression)

Fredrik Backman

ISBN 10: 1398516392 / ISBN 13: 9781398516397

Published by Simon & Schuster UK, London, 2025

About this Item

Signed first UK edition, first impression. Octavo. 436pp. Signed by the author to the half title page.
This book is in near fine condition. The blue cloth boards are near fine, with 2 very small (2-3mm) marks on the back board, which I suspect to be glue from the manufacturing process. The spine is lightly bumped to the top and bottom edges and to the middle of the spine. The spine has a very slight lean. The white titling to the spine is bright. The pages are clean and the binding is tight. The dust jacket is very good, with minor bumping to the edges, and a 3cm pen mark to the back cover. The dust jacket is unclipped.

Seller Inventory # 739

Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Friends (Signed first UK edition, first impression)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, London
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1398516392
• ISBN 13: 9781398516397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 16.2W x 24.1H x 3.1D centimeters 16.2 centimeters width by 24.1 centimeters height by 3.1 centimeters depth
• Weight: 612 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Books
  • Humour
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The beautiful new novel that will make you laugh and cry, from the global bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove. Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later…

You have to take life for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.

In the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world three tiny figures sit at the end of a pier. Most people don’t even notice them. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers seek refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days together. They tell jokes, they share secrets, and they commit small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into 18-year-old Louisa’s care. Determined to learn how it came to be and to decide what to do with it, Louisa embarks on a cross-country journey. But the closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes.

In this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art, Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect.