Book britt marie was here6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Wife to self-absorbed entrepreneur Kent and unappreciated stepmother to his children, Britt-Marie lived for decades in a house where she was relegated to a supporting role at best-and total invisibility at worst. As the book progresses, we discover that Britt-Marie had consigned herself to a self-abnegating life of virtual anonymity, even within her own home. Yet unlike the widowed pensioner of Backman’s first novel, we encounter 63-year-old Britt-Marie just after she’s left her philandering husband and is seeking a new job. Britt-Marie shares Ove’s rigid sense of propriety (and an understated but insistent way of sharing it) along with a predisposition to remain within long-established personal boundaries that unravels as the story unfolds. With just a few deft strokes-like a peculiar riff on the proper way to arrange a cutlery drawer-Backman introduces Britt-Marie, a character we believe we know intimately. ![]() Like A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman’s wildly popular first novel, Britt-Marie Was Here transports readers deep into the mind of a strange and meticulously crafted titular character. ![]()
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