The Story of Arthur Truluv

Arthur Moses is 85. He waters the flowers, pets the cat, and tends his late wife’s grave. Maddie Harris is young and beautiful. She dreams of entering an arts college, but she often skips classes to go to the cemetery, where she hides from the whole world.

Fate will bring two lonely souls together and begin an astonishing friendship. Because sometimes it’s so important that someone says: “Everything will be okay. I’m here.”

For fans of Fannie Flagg and Fredrik Backman.

A warm, kind, bright novel that will give you those very feelings you expect from a big cup of cocoa with vanilla marshmallows. A novel about escaping from difficult times of big change.

This good and bright story about love and friendship turned out to be anything but sweet and syrupy—everything in it is perfectly balanced. Berg creates vivid, alive, real heroes who win your heart from the very first pages. They may be nothing like you, but they seem so familiar and dear.

“Arthur Trelaw” once again reminds us that life is beautiful and that there is something good in every day. And there are also fateful meetings with people who will support you, give sound advice, treat you with orange cookies, or simply sit quietly beside you.

“Throughout the whole time, I kept seeing an image of an elderly man sitting on a small folding chair by his wife’s grave. I wanted to know: who this man was and what his life had been like. I felt he could teach me many things, and I wasn’t wrong.” — Elizabeth Berg