| ISBN |
9781473617230 (paperback) |
| 1473617235 (paperback) |
| Name |
Backman, Fredrik, 1981- author. |
| Uniform title |
Britt-Marie var här. English |
| Title |
Britt-Marie was here / Fredrik Backman ; translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch. |
| Published |
London : Sceptre, 2016. |
| ©2016 |
| Description |
312 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Summary |
For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been 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 passive-aggressive, socially awkward, absurdly pedantic busybody is a woman who has 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 20 years, left to fend for herself in the miserable provincial backwater that is 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 football team, she is a little unprepared. But she will learn that life may have more to offer her that she's ever realised, and love might be found in the most unexpected of places. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Swedish. |
| Subjects |
Older women -- Fiction |
| City and town life -- Fiction |
| Soccer teams -- Fiction |
| Conduct of life -- Fiction |
| Neighborhoods -- Fiction |
| Friendship -- Fiction |
| Other Names |
Koch, Henning, 1962- translator. |
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