Britt-Marie was here

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Label

Britt-Marie was here

Statement of responsibility

Fredrik Backman ; translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch

Creator

• Backman, Fredrik, 1981-

Contributor

• Koch, Henning, 1962-

Subject

• Friendship -- Fiction
• Neighborhoods -- Fiction
• Neighbors -- Fiction
• Soccer teams -- Fiction
• Women -- Fiction
• Conduct of life -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

• eng
• swe
• eng

Summary

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 nayone around her realises. 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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Literary form

non fiction