She is SO lonely that she befriends a rat! She doesn’t know what it is like to NOT be lonely. Britt-Marie is eccentric, inflexible, quirky, and all too human – but above all she is VERY lonely. Her identity has been eclipsed by her husband for so long that she doesn’t know who she is anymore. It would seem the place is besotted with soccer! For soccer is all they have left… When she arrives at her destination the first thing that happens is that she gets hit in the head with a soccer ball. With the help of a disbelieving clerk at the job center, she finds one (of sorts) in a tiny, dying hamlet called Borg. She seeks employment and, for the first time in her life, she gets a job.
When his infidelity can no longer be ignored – and after decades of being belittled and patronized, Britt-Marie leaves him after over forty years of marriage. You do not have to read the other novel first as this one stands alone quite well.īritt-Marie’s husband no longer sees her, but unfortunately he does see someone else, someone younger and prettier than Britt-Marie. She didn’t play a huge part in the book – she was the irascible and interfering neighbor who complained about the Wurse. Readers first met Britt-Marie in Fredrik Backman’s last novel “My Grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry”.
Oh… and she LOVES balconies, purple tulips, and crosswords! She likes to clean and is more than a bit OCD when it comes to having everything in its proper place. The only people who ever appreciated her enough to ‘ see‘ her were her sister Ingrid (long since dead) and her husband Kent (for a short while after they were first married). Britt-Marie is 63 years old and she has always felt invisible.
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