BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE (B FORMAT)
Fredrik Backman, the Swedish author behind the widely loved 'A Man Called Ove', returns with another quietly extraordinary portrait of an ordinary life. This one belongs to Britt-Marie, a woman who is, to put it charitably, an acquired taste. She isn't malicious, exactly. She simply has standards. Cutlery goes forks, knives, then spoons. This is not negotiable. We are not, after all, barbarians. Yet beneath all that prim, pedantic, socially awkward exterior lives someone with a far richer inner world than those around her have ever bothered to notice. That tension, funny and quietly heartbreaking in equal measure, is where Backman does his best work. When Britt-Marie's marriage of two decades collapses and she finds herself jobless and adrift, she ends up in Borg, a town so unremarkable that its most distinguished feature is a road passing through it. There, improbably, she is handed responsibility for a ragtag local football team. She is not prepared for this. Not even slightly. What follows is a warm, gently comic story about community, late-life reinvention, and the surprising places where connection finds you. It's the kind of book that sneaks up on you. You think you're reading about a fussy middle-aged woman arguing about fork placement, and then suddenly you're rather fond of her, rooting for her, hoping the world finally gives her something worth keeping.
- Author: Fredrik Backman
- Publisher: Sceptre
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- ISBN: 978-1473617230
- Pages: 320 pages