She did an amazing job in all 3 books and made the stories come alive. The narrator also narrated A Man Called Ove & My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry.

The characters are endearing, the story is both funny and sad, and is one I won’t soon forget. The people grow to love her and she them.

She finds work in a little tiny ghost of a town named Borg and does things that she never thought in a million years she would do. without using a coaster.īritt-Marie is 63 yrs. She’s a cleaning machine and a stickler for “proper” things like never sitting a cup on a table etc. She is such a great character you have to understand. She and her granddaughter Elsa, were such great characters that I’ll ever forget them and they will definitely be among my all time favorites. I first got to know Britt-Marie in Backman’s book My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry. Zany and full-of-heart, Britt-Marie Was Here is a novel about love and second chances, and about the unexpected friendships we make that teach us who we really are and the things we are capable of doing. In this world of oddballs and misfits, can Britt-Marie finally find a place where she belongs? And even more surprisingly, she is the object of romantic desire for a friendly and handsome local policeman named Sven. In her new role as reluctant mentor to these lost young boys and girls, Britt-Marie soon finds herself becoming increasingly vital to the community. Thus begins a beautiful and unlikely partnership. She’s the least likely candidate, but their need is obvious and there is no one else to do it. When the village’s youth team becomes desperate for a coach, they set their sights on her. For the fastidious Britt-Marie, this new world of noisy children, muddy floors, and a roommate who is a rat (literally), is a hard adjustment.Īs for the citizens of Borg, with everything that they know crumbling around them, the only thing that they have left to hold onto is something Britt-Marie absolutely loathes: their love of soccer. She finally walks out on her loveless forty-year marriage and finds a job in the only place she can: Borg, a small, derelict town devastated by the financial crisis.

It’s just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention.īut at sixty-three, Britt-Marie has had enough. She eats dinner at precisely the right time and starts her day at six in the morning because only lunatics wake up later than that. From the bestselling author of the “charming debut” (People) A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, a heartwarming and hilarious story of a reluctant outsider who transforms a tiny village and a woman who finds love and second chances in the unlikeliest of places.īritt-Marie can’t stand mess.

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