The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

Author(s): Jonas Jonasson

Fiction Paperback | Top 10 - June 14

As delightfully wry and witty as his bestselling debut, 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared', this is a tale of how one young woman's attempt to change her future ends up changing everything. On 14th June 2007, the King of Sweden disappears. In 1994 South Africa dismantles six missiles, developed during its brief nuclear weapons programme. In 1961 Nombeko Mayeki is born in a Soweto shack. Seemingly destined for a life nasty, brutish and short, her path takes an entirely unpredictable turn. Because really this story is all about the seventh South African missile - the one that was never supposed to have existed. The one that Nombeko knows far too much about. So now she's on the run and running into twins who are officially one person, a Vietnam vet and a potato-loving Baroness. But the fate of the King of Sweden, and indeed the world, will remain on her shoulders alone.

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Praise for 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared': 'Imaginative, laugh-out-loud bestseller' Daily Telegraph 'Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny ... The plot is pleasingly nimble and the book's endearing charm offers a happy alternative to the more familiar Nordic noir' Guardian 'A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully' Sunday Times 'We can't wait to finally escape into this feelgood tale' Stylist

Jonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later on set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel. Jonasson now lives on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea.

General Fields

  • : 9780007557899
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : Fourth Estate Ltd
  • : 0.27
  • : January 2014
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jonas Jonasson
  • : Paperback
  • : May-14
  • : very good
  • : 350