My Friends

A Novel

De: Fredrik Backman

Narrado por: Marin Ireland

#1 New York Times bestselling author 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.

Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing 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 eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she’ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.

©2025 Fredrik Backman (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio

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You become one of them.

You learn a little more about how to be a human in ways that are wonderful.

Not one of his best

Although I don't consider this to be in my top five Backman books, it still delivers. Classic, heartfelt, sad yet happy. Definitely worth the read

Great lines

Some memorable lines like "Children are not resposible for their parents happiness."

"Friend no longer here are winks from heaven.

Loverd the book but like most of hos books a little melancholy.

Engaging story

At first I was put off by the melancholy overtone, but I stuck with it and I’m glad - it was a truly engaging story.

My new favourite book

I loved this book. I laughed and cried through the whole book. I didn’t want it to end.

Great story

Great story with wonderful character development. It takes you on quite the journey. It’s not a predictable story! The narrator does a wonderful job!

uneven

Brilliant in the beginning and the middle with plot, language, character development. Rushed, not thought through, too verbose, and primitive in the last third of the book.

So much emotion

Beautifully written and narrated. This book brought up all the feelings. The story was woven together with amazing skill.

Fantastic

Best book I’ve read in a long time!! Highly recommend! 10 of 5 stars for sure.

His best yet?

Oh, my heart. I read this because I loved A Man Called Ove and the Beartown Trilogy. The Beartown Trilogy is almost mythically wonderful for me, so oddly I was unprepared for how much I would be affected by this novel. I felt like he had read my inner monologue and adapted it to his purposes. I felt like he had found my childhood friends and painted them in light. I felt like he had determined how to pass goodness from one improbable genius to another, to express love to those who were the least able to receive it and have them receive it. This is a beautiful book full of love and kindness and sadness and joy and loyalty in the face of all opposition. I loved it, and am a better person for having read it. A triumph, a paean, an ode to friendship and family—chosen and inherited—across the generations. To C. Jat, wherever and whomever and whenever you might be, I love you and I believe in you.