# My Friends: The INSTANT Sunday Times Bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards Fiction 2025 winner!

My Friends is a contemporary literary novel series by Fredrik Backman, the internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People. The debut book centers on four teenagers who spend a formative summer together in a small seaside town, clinging to their unlikely friendship as an escape from troubled home lives. Through inside jokes, shared secrets, and quiet acts of defiance, they create an unbreakable bond, one that silently shapes a stranger’s destiny decades later.

The narrative unfolds around Louisa, an aspiring artist who, twenty-five years after that summer, becomes the unexpected guardian of a mysterious painting tied to the group. As she traces the artwork back to its source, the novel reveals how the echoes of youthful connection can defy time, yielding resolutions no one could predict. This series grapples with the enduring power of art and the quiet, resilient ways friendship can rewrite a life.

## Books in this series (1)

- Vol. 1 — [My Friends The unforgettable INSTANT Sunday Times Bestseller!](https://mybookbandits.com/books/9781398516410) (ISBN 9781398516410)

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