Benny & Shrimp - Softcover

Mazetti, Katarina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143115995 ISBN 13: 9780143115991

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2009

Synopsis

Why is it so impossible to get a relationship to work between two mature single people, driven by an enormous longing and loudly ticking biological clocks? Especially when they are struck by a totally unexpected passion when they first meet - In alternate chapters, Benny and "Shrimp" tell the story of a love that started by mistake in a village cemetery, a love that should not really be as complicated as it seems. She is a childless young widow with a sharp intellect and a home so tidy that even her jam jars are in alphabetical order. He is a gentle, overworked milk farmer, a reluctant loner, who fears becoming the village's Old Bachelor. The attraction between them is powerful. But how will she learn to accept that he falls asleep at the opera and has a house full of his mother's embroidered wall hangings, and how could he ever feel at home in her minimalist apartment, bare as a dentist's waiting room?

About this title

Review:

"This offbeat, down to earth love story is refreshingly light to read, and slightly addictive...a novel that touches love's fundamentals" The Observer "Sweet and pleasingly down to earth. It is no wonder that Mazetti's offbeat romance was a runaway bestseller in her native Sweden" Daily Mail

About the Author:

KATARINA MAZETTI was nominated for the Prix Cevennes in France in 2007 and has worked as a journalist, teacher, and author of books for readers of all ages. For twenty years she lived on a small farm in northern Sweden, an experience that became the basis for Benny & Shrimp, her first adult novel, which was adapted into an award-winning film in Sweden (winning the Swedish equivalent of the Oscars).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0143115995
• ISBN 13: 9780143115991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 209