The Answer Is No cover art

The Answer Is No

A Short Story

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Answer Is No

By: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £1.99

Buy Now for £1.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone?

Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Told in Fredrik Backman’s singular witty style with sharply drawn characters and relatable antics, The Answer Is No is a laugh-out-loud portrait of a man struggling to keep to himself in a world that won’t leave him alone.

©2024 by Vecka 16 AB (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2024 by Elizabeth DeNoma. City Life Editors Select Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Urban Witty Funny

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Lost Past of Billy McQueen cover art
The Christmas Book Hunt cover art
When God Was a Rabbit cover art
Ushers cover art
The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up cover art
One Summer cover art
Night Road cover art
Lovers at the Museum cover art
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont cover art
Tell Me How This Ends cover art
Paper Cup cover art
Friends of Dorothy cover art
The Exception to the Rule cover art
All stars
Most relevant
One of my favourite authors still can’t disappoint! You get to feel the irritation and frustrations until you feeling the empathy and change with the character. He has such a way of helping us become more accepting of others.

Always relatable

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great writing and an easy read in less than a couple of hours. Makes you think about how we live our lives and how happiness is achievable. Recommend this book to anyone who wants a short read that leaves you smiling and uplifted.

Simple storyline and characters that draw you in.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In true Backman style- another great listen. Thought provoking & heartwarming.
I have never been disappointed with any of his books.
One of the greatest brains/writers of this centuary in my opinion.

Lovely heartwarming easy listening

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Clever, enjoyed the fact it was a short story - an easy listen in-between longer listens. Some characters were annoying so had to be switched on to listen as this gave the characters greater depth which developed to the end. This is my second Backman book, love his style and will be reading more!

Deeper meaning to trivial life, clever!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I could feel myself getting annoyed listening to this, so I stopped before the end. The characters were almost idiotic. Not for me, not the narration.

irritating

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews