Britt-Marie Was Here

Let's talk about Frederick Backman’s Britt-Marie Was Here.  Backman has a knack for writing compelling stories about interesting and highly eccentric characters.  This book is no exception.  Here we meet Britt-Marie a 63 year old homemaker who has just left her cheating husband.  Britt-Marie is a very fixed in her ways sort of woman.  She takes a job in a down and out town where she meets a collection of children looking for a soccer coach, Somebody - who runs a number of businesses from one location, Sven - the local policeman, Bunk - the almost blind daughter of the former soccer coach, and a visiting rat.  Britt-Marie does not like soccer but takes on the job as coach and proceeds to change everyone’s life, her own included.

Although this book was not quite as good as his two earlier books it is nevertheless worth reading.  I would recommend it.