The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for Britt-Marie Was Here includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club. In this small town of misfits, can Britt-Marie find a place where she truly belongs?įunny and moving, sweet and inspiring, Britt-Marie Was Here celebrates the importance of community and connection in a world that can feel isolating. Most alarming of all, she’s given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children’s soccer team to victory. The fastidious Britt-Marie soon finds herself being drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, layabouts. When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and has to fend for herself in the miserable backwater town of Borg-of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it-she finds work as the caretaker of a soon-to-be demolished recreation center.
It’s just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention.īut hidden inside the socially awkward, fussy busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams, and a warmer heart that anyone around her realizes. She is not one to judge others-no matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might be.
A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. The New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, and Anxious People captivates readers with this “warm and satisfying” ( People) story “about a woman rediscovering herself after a personal crisis…fans of Backman will find another winner in these pages” ( Publishers Weekly).īritt-Marie can’t stand mess.
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