Beartown Review I wasn't sure I would love a novel centred on hockey - but as with Friday Night Lights this is actually a story about people - about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men. I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown, and felt ripped apart by the events in the book (Jojo Moyes bestselling author of Me Before You)As popular Swedish exports go, Backman is up there with ABBA and Stieg Larsson. (The New York Times Book Review)Surrounded by impenetrable forests, it recreates the stifling atmosphere of a dying community. This is a mature, compassionate novel. (Sunday Times)Friday Night Lights for Swedes (O Magazine)A story about families, about friendship and loyalty, inequality, female vulnerability, male back-slapping, and parenthood ... No person's story is too little to be told, Backman includes them all. A novel with a big heart (Jönköpings-Posten, Sweden)A kind of problem play that moves extremely skilfully near the melodramatic without derailing. Its originality is substantial and the book credibly conveys the dual faces of everyday life. An impressive novel, like no other (BTJ, Sweden)Backman is a masterful writer, his characters familiar yet distinct, flawed yet heroic. . . There are scenes that bring tears, scenes of gut-wrenching despair, and moments of sly humor. . .Like Friday Night Lights, this is about more than youth sports; it's part coming-of-age novel, part study of moral failure, and finally a chronicle of groupthink in which an unlikely hero steps forward to save more than one person from self-destruction. A thoroughly empathetic examination of the fragile human spirit, Backman's latest will resonate a long time. (Kirkus Reviews)Praise for A Man Called Ove (-)It's warm, funny, and ultimately almost unbearably moving (Daily Mail)Delightful ... the perfect holiday read (Evening Standard) 				    	 					 About the Author Fredrik Backman is a Swedish blogger, columnist and author. He is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of a Man Called Ove and Top Ten bestsellers My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologises and Britt-Marie Was Here, as well as two novellas and Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and the Deal of a Lifetime. His books are published in more than 35 countries and he has sold over 8.5 million copies. Beartown is being adapted for TV by the team behind the Bridge. Fredrik lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.