“You’re the funniest thing she knows. That’s why she always draws you in color.” Can you remember One Foot in the Grave? Victor Meldrew causing misery for his wife and neighbors with his grumpiness. This book, A Man Called Ove, reminded me so much of that long forgotten TV show. Ove, the main character in the book is an ‘old’ man, aged 59, who recently lost his wife and starts every day trying to get to here. He tries to hang himself and the hook breaks, he tries to jump in front of a train and he ends up saving another man, he tries shooting himself and ends up taking in…
