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Backman, Fredrik, 1981- author.
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Older women -- Fiction.
Soccer teams -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Neighborhoods -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Runaway wives -- Fiction.
Small cities -- Fiction.
Women coaches (Athletics) -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Soccer -- Coaching -- Fiction.
Soccer stories.
Soccer teams.
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Britt-Marie was here...
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Britt-Marie
was
here
: a novel / Fredrik Backman ; translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch.
by
Backman, Fredrik, 1981- author.
New York : Atria Books, 2016. 2016.
Subjects
Older women -- Fiction.
Soccer teams -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Neighborhoods -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Runaway wives -- Fiction.
Small cities -- Fiction.
Women coaches (Athletics) -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Soccer -- Coaching -- Fiction.
Soccer stories.
Soccer teams.
Fiction.
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Summary:
Britt-Marie
can't stand mess. 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. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. But at sixty-three,
Britt-Marie
has had enough. 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. 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. As 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. When the village's youth team becomes desperate for a coach, they set their sights on her. She's the least likely candidate, but their need is obvious and there is no one else to do it. Thus begins a beautiful and unlikely partnership. 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. And even more surprisingly, she is the object of romantic desire for a friendly and handsome local policeman named Sven. In this world of oddballs and misfits, can
Britt-Marie
finally find a place where she belongs?
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324 pages ; 24 cm
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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