Britt-Marie was here / Fredrik Backman ; translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch.
Language: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: London : Atria Books, 2016Description: 298 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781473617216
- 839.73/8 23
- PT9877.12.A32 B7613 2016
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Britt-Marie is an acquired taste. It's not that she's judgemental, or fussy, or difficult - she just expects things to be done in a certain way. A cutlery drawer should be arranged in the right order, for example (forks, knives, then spoons). We're not animals, are we? But behind the pedantic, passive-aggressive busybody is a woman with more imagination, bigger dreams and a warmer heart than anyone around her realizes. So when Britt-Marie finds herself unemployed, separated from her husband of twenty years, left to fend for herself in the miserable provincial backwater of Borg - of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it - and somehow tasked with running the local children's football team, she is a little unprepared ...
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