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Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

If your reading group loved A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman then you’re in for a treat!

We are offering 15 reading groups the chance to read and review Britt-Marie Was Here by the European bestselling author.

Each group will be asked to post a review online and have the opportunity to ask the author himself a question. The best questions will be answered by the author and published on Reading Groups for Everyone!

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Britt-Marie Was Here

When Britt-Marie finds herself unemployed, separated from her husband of 20 years, left to fend for herself in the miserable provincial backwater that is 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 football team, she is a little unprepared.

But this is Fredrik Backman, who struck such a chord with Ove: she will learn that life may have more to offer her than she’s ever realised, and love might be found in the most unexpected of places.

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