Playworld: A Novel Kerri ní Dochartaigh Fredrik Backman's beloved first novel

Fredrik Backman's beloved first novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others

and Kate Winslet

Of her childhood in Poland

Seeking some reprieve from her recent hardships and from her family’s addiction to their devices

and back to her hometown

Playworld: A Novel Kerri ní Dochartaigh Fredrik Backman's beloved first novelA big and big hearted novelone enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut (A brilliant, powerful, and memorable book The New York Times) In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me