SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 FICTION BESTSELLER! FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED. From the author of the bestselling ‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’, comes a charming, humorous and utterly unique tale of how one young woman’s actions can have unlikely – and global – consequences. Just because the world ignores you, doesn’t mean you can’t save it . . . Nombeko Mayeki was never meant to be a hero. Born in a Soweto shack, she seemed destined for a short, hard life. But now she is on the run from the world ‘s most ruthless secret service, with three Chinese sisters, twins who are officially one person and an elderly potato farmer. Oh, and the fate of the King of Sweden - and the world - rests on her shoulders. As uproariously funny as Jonas Jonasson’s bestselling debut, this is an entrancing tale of luck, love and international relations. ‘A comic delight of love, luck and mathematics’ Daily Express. ‘It’s “feel-good” set to stun level’ Guardian. ‘As unlikely and funny as The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared’ Observer. ‘ Excellent. A drily satirical tour of the world [taking in] Swedish liberals, Colonel Gaddafi and of course, apartheid and the South African Prime Minister B J Vorster’ The Times. ‘’Feel-good’ set to stun level’ Guardian ‘A funny and completely implausible farce about a woman, a bomb and a man’s frustrated ambition to overthrow the king of Sweden … The rest of the world will chuckle all the way through it’ Kirkus. 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. • Jonas Jonasson’s last novel, his debut, The ‘100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window’, was an international literary sensation. It has sold over 5,000,000 copies worldwide. It sold 500,000 copies in the UK alone. • ‘The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden’ has already sold over 130,000 copies in the UK. • The novel is very much in the same vein as Jonas’s much loved debut – a comic romp, a rumbustious delight, a freewheeling page-turner – with another charming but unlikely hero. • Jonas Jonasson was born in Sweden. He was a very successful media consultant, before he made a radical change in direction, selling his company and moving to the island of Gotland to write his novels. Competition: Love Song Of Miss Queenie Hennessy; Man Called Ove; Our Endless Numbered Days; Rosie Project; Snow Garden And Other Stories; Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared; Rachel Joyce; Rainbow Rowell; Fredrik Backman; Claire Fuller; Vaseem Khan; Claire North; Bradley Somer;
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